Open Sesame

Project: Open Sesame

Platform: Kinect 2

Game Theme: The Lightening Round

Project Period: 1 week

Date: OCT 3 - OCT 9, 2018

Teammates: Zhaoyi (Ashley) Liang, Wenyu (Sylvia) Mao, Chia Chi (Aurora) Chang, Weidi Tang, Mollie Braley

Overview: Open Sesame is a game which needs two players cooperate to use their body movements to solve puzzles to open different kinds of doors.

My Role: Programmer

As Programmer, I worked with another programmer and took charge of the logic of gameplay. I helped design, iterate upon, and play test every aspects of the game.

Game Theming: Adventurous/Children/Cute

Highlights:

• Room Decoration:

  - Colorful, matches the weirdness of the world

  - Door to room will be decorated like one of our themed doors

  - Possible “password” protected by one of our team members

  - Other cardboard doors will decorate the walls

• Make your own puzzle + Photo Booth:

  - Guests can create their own physical button puzzles by placing cardboard “buttons” with velcro onto a felt door

  - Option to take photos of friends completing their puzzles or of themselves

• Leaderboard:

  - Fastest partner completion times of the evening

  - Whiteboard; covered to look like a door