Dragon Roaster

Roasting meat in 60 seconds

Gameplay:

Control the dragon with your hand motion. You want to breathe fire onto the meet roast them and avoid burning watermelon. Nobody likes burned watermelon.

Game Information

This game is made with Unity. It uses webcams connecting to the computer to capture players’ hand motions. Thus, players can use their hand motions to control the dragon to breathe fire to roaster the meat and avoid burning the watermelon.

PC Game
Made in Unity
Using motion capture through a webcam to control the dragon

Why I make this game

One day, my girlfriend shoot me this package on GitHub that can capture players’ motion through the webcam. It's so cool in any possible way. It looks cool, the algorithm is cool, the game that implements this package will be so cool to play. I can’t resist myself to make a game with this. The whole-body motion capture is quite accurate and interesting, but I want to start from simple. So I delete dozens of control points and leave only three out of them: neck, left hand, and right hand. These three points form two vectors or an angle that I can use to control the strength of the dragon breathing the fire. I spent a few hours every day and made it in one week. I am quite satisfied with my work, but I definitely want to do more with it if I have time. For example, more gestures that can come with more abilities, or fancy effects that change the entire scene with particles and scene shifting. Hope one day I will have time for that.

There is a downside though. The requirement is so high for this game. I run the game on a GTX 1070 with only 28 fps. Hope the algorithm will get better in the future soon.

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