Final Major Project Proposal

For my final major project I 'am going to do like a dance style reaction game.  This will have the person playing it testing reactions and other things. Some of the pressure pads that you hit will activate music and different colour squares on the screen. For this i will have a black out tent of some kind to black it all out so its dark.

For this I am going to buy an old play station dance mat and take it apart and reprogram  it and make it do what i want it to do. I will also design my own graphics and pictures that will be stuck on tot he pressure pads.

I will also being doing a countdown counting down from 5 all the way down to 1, and once this has counted down the game would start. 

I am having coloured skeletons  a screen which is linked to the pressure pads and you have to stomp down on the  right coloured pressure pad.  I am also adding sound effects so when the player hits the skeleton off the screen using the pressure pads and by adding sounds to that, they would know they they hit it. Another thing that I'm going going to do is add a type of scoring system, each one of the skeleton would give you 10 points if you hit it off the screen. On the other side of the screen I will code into Adobe Director a timer which will countdown from a certain time, this allows each person an allotted amount of time to play the game. The timer will beep when it reaches down to zero.

I' am also going  to research how to make pressure pads from scratch. There are many videos and tutorials that I can use and help me make my own pressure pads. An advantage to making my own pressure pad is that I can have the shape and style of pressure pads that I want. I can also make them how big or small depending on the size that I want them to be. Another option is to buy an old play station or computer  dance mat, and then I would have to re programme the dance mat so it would be compatible to work with the programme which I needed it to work with which was Adobe Director. If I did manage to re programme the dance mat I would have to change the design because it already has one on it. So I would have to put my own design over the top of the dance mat so it would go with my game. 

Here is a link on how to make a pressure pad and it also shows you with pictures how to make it.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Pressure-Pad

For when I do the show I am going to have my game on full screen on the Mac and have the pressure pads all around the computer on the floor, so it would be easier for people to play my game. Once the pressure pads are around the computer on the floor I plan to hide the wires and tape them down so people cant trip over them and also they would be hidden out of site I also plan to have music playing in the background so it would feel more like a dancing game.