GMU:I and my Max/Felix Geith

THE PROJECT

The game "Catch Yourself If You Can"

The idea of my project was to create a simple game in Max MSP, that will be played by only one player using both hands to play against each other. So one hand is the others opponent. The player has to decide to let one hand win over the other, or try to balance the game. Both works.

To make this difference between the hands a bit clearer I decided to use two different interfaces/controllers. For the left hand piezo sensors track the tipping of each individual finger, on the other hand (literally) there's a slider on a OSC application on a mobile phone that's sending values to the Max Application.

The gameplay is pretty classic, oldschool you could say, it's heavily inspired by old Nokia games like Space Impact or Snake. The right hand steers a purple square (it's a spaceship of course), and has to catch incoming red squares, that are generated by the tipping fingers of the left hand. If the right hand fails to catch less than 5 enemy-squares, the game's over.

It's possible to count the score, to reset/restart the game at any moment and to choose from three different levels of difficulty, easy, normal and hard, changing the speed of the incoming values.

To make it easy to try out the patch quickly, without having to setup the sensors etc., I added five bang objects and a slider to simulate the sensors. These can only be used by one hand and not simultaneously, so you can test the patch with them, but the idea of playing against yourself doesn't work out this way.

Here's a video of me playing.

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Weekly Tasks:

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