Inspiration
I wanted to create more active games for my nephew that are interactive and fun for him to play. This one is inspired by Fruit Ninja but you swipe to pop balloons (watch out for the birds of course!)
What it does
Using your webcam this game turns your hand into a balloon popping instrument. Slash across the screen to pop as many balloons as you can before the timer runs out!
How I built it
Prompts with Bolt.New and research into libraries that do motion tracking with the webcam such as MediaPipe Hands with TensorFlow.js
Challenges we ran into
Balancing the gameplay experience between manual and camera mode. The motion tracking being overly sensitive between the head and torso.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Making my first motion powered/web cam enabled game.
What I learned
The different points for the webcam tracking and limiting to just the hand instead of the whole body.
What's next for Balloon Burster
- adding more objects to swipe at (including multi swipe objects)
- power ups
- refined avatars and sprites
Built With
- bolt.new
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