Gameplay Design

The soul of this project was the interactivity the Kinect offers.

Originally, this project only consisted of a minigame that drew inspiration from the Hole in the Wall game show. I utilized the Kinect's depth sensors to capture the user's body and display it on the screen as a moving texture.

This texture would then need to fill a static PNG texture which would act as the "hole" the player would need to fit through. For feedback reasons, I made it so that the pixels that overlap with the "hole" texture are a different color from the pixels of the player texture.

Below is the first iteration of the project

Since the gameplay revolved around the actions the player can take with their body, I wanted to focus on three type of actions

• Full Body: This focused on the player moving their body around

• Two Hands: This focused on the player only moving their arms around

• One Hand: This focused on the player moving their right hand or make motions (i.e. Swiping Left)

Programming

Utilzing this gameplay design, I wrote all the scripts needed to develop the videogame. here are some highlights

• System where minigames seamlessingly transition to each other

• Shader graphs to enhance player visibility for certain minigames

• Leaderboard system that writes and reads from the system files

• Validation screen that detects if player cannot be found and pauses the game to reconnect