Game Programmer and Composer
The Elder Games is a prototype of a vehicular collectible game, with a custom chair controller. This uses a gyroscope and accelerometer to keep track of the chair’s rotation, which is mapped in-game to steer the character. Three buttons make 4 separate functions. Jump, and boost your way to victory.
Role: Custom Controller Engineer & Programmer
Development Time: 3 Weeks
Team Size: 8
The controller for this game was an office chair that you sit in. When you turn left or right in the chair, your character would also turn in-game, and the arm is adorned with buttons to fire, jump, and boost your way through the level. The steering was achieved with a gyroscope and accelerometer soldered to a TeensyLC arduino.
After a calibration step at the beginning of play, the gyro/accelerometer data is constantly de-noised, and sent to Unreal, where we used the difference in angle to rotate the character left or right with varying velocity.