SNAKE WAVE

Play the retro Snake game with a modern-day twist. No keyboard, no problem. All you need is your hand!

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Inspiration

We've been playing the same old Snake game for a while and are ready to level it up with a ROCKY twist. Like the original, Snake Wave is a single-player game for snakes to slither across a battlefield collecting rocks for food. Each round you play, you’ll earn points. Challenge your friends to beat your high score, and PLAY THE SNAKE WAVE.

What it does

  • Play the next level of the classic snake game where you don't need to press a single key to play!
  • Guide a snake to eat rocks just by moving your finger in front of a camera
  • Grow your snake for a high score while avoiding eat yourself or running into the edges

How we built it

  • OpenCV for live video capture
  • Google's MediaPipe for hand landmarking to identify the index finger and its location
  • Pygame to create a local game

Challenges we ran into

  • Integrating MediaPipe code and open CV with Pygame
  • Understanding MediaPipe documentation
  • Overcoming a gameboard that was resetting after each frame

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • The position of the finger is correctly identified in the respective quadrant
  • The snake movement is responsive and playable

What we learned

  • How to read the documentation and follow tutorials
  • How to debug errors that block us from running our code
  • Dealing with merge conflicts
  • Plan API calls to reduce inefficiencies and more challenging for other coders to interpret if changes need to be change
  • Design with user experience in mind

What's next for Snake Wave

  • Improve UI with multiple screens for user login, leaderboard, and rewards store for different skins
  • Deploy and use the API we built for user data

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