Shiva Kannan
Multi-player Music Puzzle Game
So you think you can dance: A multi-player cooperative music puzzle game
Team :
Programmers : Shiva Kannan, Mera Tegene
Artists : Simon He, Shuqi Wang
Producer : Xi Li
Music and Sounds : Shiva Kannan and Xi Li
Platform : Desktop and XBox Controllers
Tools : Unity ( C#), Logic ProX
Development:
The team was tasked to create a very engaging game catered towards the BVW festival that happens every fall at CMU ETC. We quickly gave ourselves a bunch of constraints to start working with :
* Multiplayer
* Cooperative
* Music Creation
One of our inspirations for the game was an app called Incredibox (mobile music sequencer application).
We took this concept to the next level by gamifying music creation and making it a fun MasterMind like puzzle to solve. After close to 3 big iterations we ended up with a 3 player game where each guest is assigned a character whom he/she chooses a music loop to make his character dance. The guests get 12 rounds to guess 3 correct combinations that will make all their characters do a coordinated dance.
Contributions:
Gameplay design : Designed and programmed the puzzle in Unity. Handled all the animation code, world setup, music loops and sequencer setup and audio code for timing on-off of loops.
Music and audio : Co-composed the music for the entire game. Added in pitch and low-pass filter automation for indicating a failure when guests don't get the correct combination.
The team was tasked to create a very engaging game catered towards the BVW festival that happens every fall at CMU ETC. We quickly gave ourselves a bunch of constraints to start working with :
* Multiplayer
* Cooperative
* Music Creation
One of our inspirations for the game was an app called Incredibox (mobile music sequencer application).
We took this concept to the next level by gamifying music creation and making it a fun MasterMind like puzzle to solve. After close to 3 big iterations we ended up with a 3 player game where each guest is assigned a character whom he/she chooses a music loop to make his character dance. The guests get 12 rounds to guess 3 correct combinations that will make all their characters do a coordinated dance.
Contributions:
Gameplay design : Designed and programmed the puzzle in Unity. Handled all the animation code, world setup, music loops and sequencer setup and audio code for timing on-off of loops.
Music and audio : Co-composed the music for the entire game. Added in pitch and low-pass filter automation for indicating a failure when guests don't get the correct combination.