Hello
I am in my final year at DIT and I am working on a project to get my degree in Computer Science. The thing I'm working on is a simple game. Gameplay-wise it's rather basic. I'd describe it as a 2D top-down scrolling arcade game. You're in a control of a space ship and you need to collect coloured stones that appear synchronised to the music you pick, kinda like in Audiosurf. The point is basically to get as many points as possible and there's a few power-ups (or power-downs) to make things more random.
I'm no graphics guy so the best I could do is simple vector graphics stuff, but at least it gives it a retro feel. I spent most of the time on the music feature extraction algorithm, and I think it's good compared to other games in the genre.
The game uses Leap Motion and you can try the dual mode and control two ships simultaneously with two hands. Just plug it in and play. The project uses very simple hand tracking on one axis. Unfortunately I don't know any people with LM who could give me feedback on this mode of gameplay.
You can watch some gameplay videos:
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
maudlin of the Well - Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)
The Tammys - Egyptian Shumba
Kanye West - All of the Lights
And dozens of videos from previous versions here.
If that's sounds like something you could be interested in, I'd be really grateful for any feedback that will help me improve the game and write my thesis. To get the game, just download the zip from here and install it with setup.exe. The zip archive also includes a link to the feedback form (feel free to leave a comment here too :D) and some instructions. If the game complains about missing msvcp120.dll, just download Visual C++ Redistributable from the same link or Microsoft website. It's not a finished game (sorry for the lack of highscores and very basic gameplay, etc.), but I've had some fun with it anyway.
PS. if the song fails to load, try to reload it. This only started to happen very recently and I'm looking into it.
