Cowboys in Space

Inspiration

My friend group used to use Club Penguin's Ski Hill to settle disputes, but with the site shut down, we wanted to come up with our own way. Inspired by old western shootouts, we created a browser-based, mobile app for a good ole' "fastest gun in the west" duel

Lets you duel your friends as gunslingers, online
Your phone is your weapon, ready, draw, and FIRE, all tracked by the accelerometer
Connect and sync with your friend across large distances to find out who's the superior gunslinger
Determines winner of a duel based on who drew their weapon/phone faster

Google Firebase used to store data about duels and the players, as well as a beacon to signal WebRTC handshakes
WebRTC protocol for peer-to-peer communication between two browser-based applications
Accelerometer support in the browser to detect the motions of drawing and firing the phone

Implementing reliable communication on top of UDP/WebRTC without sacrificing real-time performance
Accounting for difference in permissions and implementations of DeviceOrientation and DeviceMotion
Real-time applications can be tricky; we needed the application to accurately determine the winner no matter what latency. This is largely due to our teammates being from different cities across the state
Getting sounds to play on iOS devices can be incredibly tricky, and getting WebRTC to work was a challenge as well
Calculating the different positions using accelerometer data required a lot of data analysis

This was the first time that any of our team used WebRTC, and we're proud to have created a peer-to-peer networked architecture
Tracking and detecting certain motions (ready, draw, fire) are pretty smooth and natural
No merge conflicts in development!

Worked on the networking stack

Jared Flores
I need a lot more sleep though
Motion detection with device motion and orientation is awesome, except IOS is overprotective with web Audio and Vibration APIs when it comes to browser

Tina Shi
Hacking for the learning, the challenge, and the happiness ._.
aided in the concept and idea of this.

Alex pham
yes
Worked through Data to track phone orientation

Kenneth Nguyen
Math man looking for a real life application for math