Wall Guys | Devpost

💡 Our Mission

Create an intuitive game but tough game that gets its players to challenge their speed & accuracy. We wanted to incorporate an active element to the game so that it can be played guilt free!

🧠 What it does

It shows a sequence of scenes before beginning the game, including the menu and instructions. After a player makes it past the initial screens, the game begins where a wall with a cutout starts moving towards the player. The player can see both the wall and themselves positioned on the environment, as the wall appears closer, the player must mimic the shape of the cutout to make it past the wall. The more walls you pass, the faster and tougher the walls get. The highest score with 3 lives wins!

🛠️ How we built it

We built the model to detect the person with their webcam using Movenet and built a custom model using Angle Heuristics to estimate similarity between users and expected pose. We built the game using React for the front end, designed the scenes and assets and built the backend using python flask.

🚧 Challenges we ran into

We were excited about trying out Unity, so we spent a around 10-12 trying to work with it. However, it was a lot more complex than we initially thought, and decided to pivot to building the UI using react towards the end of the first day. Although we became lot more familiar with working with Unity, and the structure of 2D games, it proved to be more difficult than we anticipated and had to change our gameplan to build a playable game.

🏆 Accomplishments that we're proud of

Considering that we completely changed our tech stack at around 1AM on the second day of hacking, we are proud that we built a working product in a extremely tight timeframe.

📚What we learned

This was the first time working with Unity for all of us. We got a surface level understanding of working with Unity and how game developers structure their games. We also explored graphic design to custom design the walls. Finally, working with an Angles Heuristics model was interesting too.