My final interactive art piece is a metaphor for procrastination. Truthfully, I procrastinate more than I should on many tasks in life, but I feel that this is a situation that many others can relate to, so I felt that it would be interesting to create a game out of it.<\/p>\n
In this game, the player sits in front of a monitor with a webcam, holding a controller that has a small light source in front of it. The player is able to see themselves on-screen and move the controller around to ward off animated “chores,” such as a flying incomplete essay or a walking uncleaned trashcan, that come towards center-screen. The controller can push away the chores temporarily; however, they only come back at increasing speeds. Eventually, they will close in and the player will lose; the goal is to “put them off” for as long as possible.<\/p>\n
The controller’s position is determined by its light source (which is actually a book light duct-taped to the bottom), which can be tracked with the Max computer vision package.<\/p>\n
Here is a demo of the project.<\/p>\n