Last week I had an idea for a small project – party entertainment. The trend towards computer party games is long gone, but there are still many unexplored ideas. I’ve been thinking about using another concept that used to be a hype – floor sensors, most notably used in Dance Dance Revolution.<\/p>\n
The thing I’m trying to accomplish is to use the floor as a kind of instrument – more specifically a sample playback device. This idea is not new by any means, but I just thought it would be a good exercise, and a nice usage of my engine. Also, if it works properly it should be pretty fun and something that would be a special enhancement for parties and such.<\/p>\n
So I got my old DDR dance mats and looked into how the buttons could be read. Turns out they are being modeled as gamepads with 10 buttons. So I needed joystick support, which turned out to be pretty straightforward to implement.<\/p>\n
I also needed some way to load and play back audio samples, which meant audio support. I went for OpenAL with the libsndfile library, which took a bit longer to get working. It turned out kind of okay, although the sound playback is slightly too slow – right now there is a noticeable delay between pressing a button on the dance mat and the actual playback.<\/p>\n
Even so, given some good audio samples the setup is pretty fun to toy around with. I’m probably going to refine it a bit more over the next couple of weeks and try it out at a small in-house party I’m having. As soon as it’s at least semi-working, I’ll put it up here for grabs.<\/p>\n
It’s pretty exciting to have something that’s even remotely fun working… I’m probably going to do many more of these as I continue to develop my engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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