Glooveth [PC - Python]

Glooveth game project is the development of an educational game to help preventing adult cancer disease on kids. Part of the project was presented in the Cure4Kids Global eHealth Challenge, organized for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee; and won the Silver Award. The game theme is focused on healthy living for children, specifically on the nutritional field.

The created proposal tries to be innovative and offer something different for an educational game, a new experience adjusted to the current computer game industry, creating a new control game experience for the user. The game system controls are three different peripherals: a computer mouse, and two special gloves. The first glove is a regular one, customized with infrared (IR) LEDs on the tip of index finger. The second one is a force-feedback glove with 22 sensors (Immersion CyberTouch) including also the 3 IR LEDs technology on the back hand’s palm.

The project’s main idea is to provide a more fun and intuitive game playing for the user, so he/she plays using his/her own hands. Besides that, the project also makes sure if the game transmits clearly the educational background content proposed.

The conception of the game implied a complete game development. In other words, the project consisted of the idea generation and specification, the creation of the game story and the art designs, as well as the game implementation and a final usability testing. Regarding the usability testing, and given the three different peripherals for game interaction, the project tries to know which one is the best for a better performance on game playing.

Dev. Period: Feb 2010 - Sep 2010 (8 months)
Tech./Platform: Panda3D, Python, Crayon3D, CyberTouch Glove
People: 1 developer (me), 1 designer
Code: https://github.com/enricmacias/Glooveth

Regular glove gameplay

Force-feedback glove gameplay

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