Pressure Project 3
Posted: October 29, 2020 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »
For this pressure project, I wanted to create a game where the player would attempt to move a conductive ring through an obstacle without contacting the obstacle (similar to the board game Operation). The object is to move the wand through the obstacle and touch the piece of foil labeled goal. This would trigger a victory scene. However, if any of the obstacle was touched with the wand, it would trigger a failure screen and the player would need to remove the wand from the obstacle and touch the reset button to go back into the game.
One thing I realized while designing the game was that it would be incredibly easy to cheat, for example moving the wand directly to the goal without going over the obstacle at all after starting the game. I decided to keep this feature in the game without resolving it because it made it very easy to test the game.
When I was building my box I expected I bent a coat metal coat hanger to create the wand and the obstacle. I assumed that the metal coat hanger would be conductive, however, the paint on the obstacle prevented that from happening. I could have sanded down the hanger, but instead, I glued and wrapped foil around the hanger. This created a few places where the wand was not conductive.
Another challenge I ran into was the physical construction of the box. I did not anticipate the need for room for the alligator clips to connect to the makey makey device. I ended up having to make a much taller box so the clips could stand up without strain or being bent at an angle inside of the box.
If I had more time to work on this project, I would have liked to have added another button to bring up a scene that would allow the player to play a “challenge mode.” This mode would force the player to complete the course within a certain amount of time. I also thought it would be interesting to force the player to engage with the Leap Motion controller with their other hand while trying to complete the game.
Download game files:
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