Inspirational Project

In the 2012 fall semester of 15-112 taught by Kosbie, a student made a Magneto-themed game for his final project. It used a typical computer webcam as motion sensor to recognize bright-colored tape on a glove, which the user wears to guide a metal ball past obstacles to the end of the maze. The game-play as presented in the video (which was visually fantastic) was smooth and responsive to the user’s motions. I didn’t admire a particular aspect about the project so much as I admire the fact that a single person, probably also just an incoming freshman like me at the time, was able to put that together in 2-3 weeks. Suddenly, cool things found on the distant internet suddenly seemed a lot closer (and made me wonder what I’ve been doing with my time). I really wanted to play that game, and I still do. If expanded, it has the potential to be sold.

I apologize for not having the author and name of the game currently. It seems the maker of the game has not put his project on Kosbie’s term project gallery.