Interactive Simon Says game

I dont quite recall how this game evolved but the main motivation behind it is to improve cognitive processing and attention by getting the players to focus on a sequence of drum hits and then repeat that sequence. Players can use either dance-dance-revolution mats or a custom built 4-pad bongo style controller. Its being built for www.tulgeywood.us to give a little background to the target players/users

Step 1 Software

I was very fortunate to come across a talented game developer in the UK who has similar interests. http://www.funpods.com/ we got talking and within a week he had turned out this fantastic virtual drum. We're going to hold off on releasing the source code for now as its still in development but you can play our working demo using the keyboard rows (qwertyui) for player 1 and (asdfghjk) for player 2.

http://web.mac.com/pauric_ocallaghan/simondrums/PauricsDrums_003.htm

We initially went with 8 pads which mapped on the to 8 switches found on a DDR mat but pulled that back to 4 for simplicity. The game was tested recently and a number of enhancements will be rolled in. 1)the two virtual drum kits will be different colours, 2) the listening period for player 2 will be extended 3)the pads of the hand controller need arrows to allow players to map the real & virtual together.

latest version 4
http://www.funpods.com/freelance/TulgeyWood/Pauric'sDrums_004.htm

(note to Richard, can you remove the ' as it chops off the link here)
Note to everyone else, I dont know how much bandwidth I've got so if the .mac link dies try the funpods by copy/paste the whole line, dont just click on the broken link. And check out some of Richards other games, I contacted him after playing the Bonobo's bongos, its really cool.

Comments

[Sk8rDuck]

Do you know if that Kraft dance mat works with a PS2? BTW this is really cool!

[Frogz]

nope, it uses proprietary drivers and doesnt even allow 2 buttons opposite eachother to be pressed at the same time(ie, NO JUMPS <> /\ \/)

[occoo5666]

ya, i did. the just work better on dancce games.

[radiorental]

you can get a ps2 mat off ebay for around $10