CANDY MOUNTAIN
2-4 players Arcade Cabinet Game ( 2015.3--2015.5 )
Collaborator: Manxue Wang, Xi Liu
Tag: Unity 2D, Arcade Cabinet Game
| My Role
- Ideation: game mechanism
- Digital Fabrication: vectorworks, CNC, paint and assembling
- Arduino: LED strip and button
- Unity: javascript
| Introduction
Candy Moutain is a multiplayer arcade game that allows four players to play at the same time. This is a collabrative project. The arcade cabinet is 6’ tall, 4’ wide. It is a candy shooting game. Each player controls one character with two buttons: one to move back and forth, the other to shoot. The more candy you shoot and collect, the higher score you get. At the same time, players try to avoid being attacked by other players because if you’re hit, you freeze. The one who has the highest score wins.
IDEATION
The project includes game design, programming in Unity, physical arcade design and digital fabrication. After Manxue proposed her initial idea, I join and work with her to build the arcade cabinet and to do javascript coding in Unity 2D. The main challenge of this project is to finish all the design on time. Since both of us have design background, we learn Unity from scratch. Also, it's our first time to use Vectorworks ( a CAD software ) to design the shape and size of the cabinet. And it's time consuming to cut large pieces plywood by CNC machine. We overcome all the difficulties finally create our arcade game!
Game Design
Digital Fabrication
Arcade Show
