For my final major project at university, I knew I had to make something big, something thats just amazing.
I chose to use mind control.
My plan is to make a Flash game that is controlled by the power of thought. Your thoughts. Mix that with the Microsoft Kinect and some hand tracking and you have a game where you wave your hand over enemies and then just concentrate to kill them.
It's also relaxing too, by relaxing, monsters appear on screen, or how I prefer to explain it, the monsters get pull out of your subconcious, they represent all your bad feelings and stress and you get to blow them up.
Not only that, but there is a boss fight, the powerful and evil Space David Bowie wants to steal these mind powers away from you. You have to exercise caution as if you relax too much, he is able to attack you and eventually steal your mind powers.
This is all built around an arcade game experience. You stand in front of a stylised podium where your concentration affects the lighting around you, all while wearing a magnificent giraffe hat.
Yes, the character you play in the game is a space giraffe, one who has mind powers.
I have made the worlds first mind controlled arcade game. With floating giraffes.
I am running a blog about this project and all the work I'm doing for it, so if you are interested in just how and why these projects get made, have a gander at it.
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