Date: May 2021 - Dec 2021
Role: Sole Developer
Platform: Mobile/PC
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Responsibilities include developing a game that uses the mobile phone as a controller for a computer based game
"Stealth Mobile" is an advanced seminar project where the goal was to create a proof of concept game in which the player could use their phone as a controller to play the game.
In this project I developed a multiplayer party game in which any number of players could join an onscreen game by using a phone app to connect to the computer
The players would then be asked to race through a series of obstacles all the while being tasked to solve a complicated puzzle on their phone to move their player on screen.
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While by the end of the project I was unable to get a working phone to computer connection, I was successful in creating a multiplayer proof of concept with computer connections.
One of the challenges I had while working on this project was tackling the issue of making a multiplayer/networking game. As this was the first networking game I have developed, the most I was able to achieve during initial development was to implement buttons that would move the player.
To work around my initial lack of networking knowledge I decided to make the most out of moving the player by making that an activity of itself. On the player's phone screen, their movement buttons would be obscured by puzzles they would have to solve in order to move their character on the computer screen, thereby allowing me to avoid programming overly complicated mechanics.
Control Panel as shown on mobile screen that player would use to move their character