Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by gumbykid 3900 days ago
The code is okay.

The main mode has all the features - timer, high score, ordered score board, different layouts.

The other modes are more in testing and need some additional features, but are functional.

No motion sensing. It's far too complicated for such a simple game and a full time student with a job. A solution would be to make it on a tablet and whenever a climber hits a "hold", the person using the tablet could hit it as well, essentially doing manual motion detection. Could also click on a computer.

I encourage pull requests.

1 comments

An easy way to check would be to give the users gloves of a distinguishable color they are not wearing (it just have to cover the back of the hand) and check for that color to cover the dots.
That's one way (tape on the back of hand so it doesn't impact climbing). Another way is to make it a distinguishable shape and color (white triangle) that a Kinect could be coded to recognize. The problem lies in that for motion detection to be fun, it should be interactive, as in create new shapes on the fly and such. Instantly recognizing them would be tougher to implement, since I have little experience in motion detection.
Oops, make the shapes distinguishable, not the glove/tape