Silhouette Showdown final hand in

Jenna in final stages before final hand in

The last few days I have worked on the completion of my Silhouette Showdown. It has covered a lot of areas and functions well as a whole game. I think the purpose of our game and what we wanted to achieve of it is still there. It has that core theme of edginess by focusing on people bonding together more physically to achieve a common goal. It allows people to disregard their personal space as the gameplay removes the players thoughts on any real world rules and has them completely focused on the game and the need of cooperation to win. This is strengthened when the players are put into teams and instead of looking to achieve that high score, they instead are competing against real and present opponents.

One of the BCT students testing the game

Our physical button made from a keyboard hack

At the moment for our hand in we have one mode finished, versus. Versus allows their to be two teams who verse each other and allows the teams to decide out of the 50 pictures what one they want to play off against each other. The team that wins is decided by who has the highest accurate percentage score representing the silhouette. When playing Silhouette Showdown it was actually good to see how entertaining our game was and that people were eager to be included into a team to play the game.

The game features at present state:

  Menu navigation

  High score list

  Sound effects

  Versus mode

  Team name choice 

  Categorised 50 Silhouette images   

  Image selection

  Silhouette style video imaging

  4 different screen variations each showing information related to the current game

  Timer countdown

  Physical button(used to stop the countdown straight away)

  Calculated percent scores from players silhouette picture compared to original picture

  Percent scores and team names saved to high score 

The players all concentrating on getting into the right position

Other students playing our game

Our team of 3 were Jenna Gavin, Matt Martin(me) and Thomas Hall. Jenna worked on the core parts of the game including creating the versus mode, silhouette style video output, score calculation and image selection. I created the surrounding parts of the game including menu navigation, sound effects and timer countdown. Tom was able to create the 50 images as well as create a mouse hack for the physical button. Some input from other students were Emile Drescher and Taura Grieg. We had guidance and a lot of help from our tutor Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath.

We plan on taking this further over the next few months but not until all other work is over. It also allows us time to take a step back and welcome new ideas and plans of attack to improve on Silhouette Showdown. I believe this will become a holiday project to keep me busy.

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