tobybenjaminclark / jazzhands

🎷 1st Place for HackNotts84. Intuitive, Retro, Gesture Based, Rhythm game using Python3, GMS2, OpenCV & MediaPipe. Feel free to download and play!

jazzhands

JazzHands is a mixed-reality, retro-style rhythm game developed using GameMakerStudio2 & Python3.12. The game involves repeating hand gestures shown on the screen, in rhythm with a choice of 3 custom-edited songs to earn points:

• Michael Jackson Thriller (8bit Rendition)
• Rasputin (8bit Rendition)
• Tetris Theme Song (8bit Rendition)

Backend

JazzHands uses MediaPipe to recognize hand gestures. Jazzhands can distinguish left hands from right hands, and successfully handle multiple hands, allowing for single and multiplayer mode.

Frontend

Assets are made in Aesprite. JazzHands was made with a retro feel in mind, hoping to combine the nostalgic feel of arcade games with cutting-edge computer vision technology. We tailored our design decisions to portray this idea.

Redevelopment & Continuing Works

Jazzhands is currently under a massive redevelopment. Aiming for 2024 release!

jazzhands's Issues

Edit & Export Song Preview Segments.

When hovering over a level/stage, a 15s-30s preview of the song should play. At the moment it's the whole song, which isn't good as they start late. Techno songs need new 15-30s clips of the best part of the song to play on hover, with very slight fade in/fade out.

Business Plan

Write Business Plan using the following template:

https://assets.ctfassets.net/qq0roodynp09/2HBoHCv6yu11paF6qXzZsd/c443aa7120411a76622f342970b23306/BUSINESS_PLAN_2015.pdf

Refactor CV from Python3 to C++

Refactor Computer Vision from Python3 to C++. Configure CMake files to allow for multi platform compilation (will need to be done in a launcher?)

Restructure Repository

Reorganise File Hierarchy to a more organised layout, to improve brevity and working with the repository. Organise files into subfolders and fix the loose files in the project repository folder.