Team Defenestrator
Poses for Dummies
A two-player, asymmetric rhythm-survival game where one player's body becomes the controller and the other plays the villain.
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About this project
The premise: A Poser stands in front of a webcam and must contort their body to fit through "holes" (pose-shaped cutouts in walls) that scale up toward them on the beat, Hole-in-the-Wall style. A second player, the Saboteur, draws those poses in real time by dragging the joints of an on-screen ragdoll (or rolls random ones if they'd rather just be cruel). The Saboteur also has access to power-ups which further thwart the Poser's efforts. The Athlete has 3 lives and must survive a ~2-minute music track of ~30 walls. Then the players swap devices and roles; the highest accumulated score wins. How it works: MediaPipe captures the Athlete's skeleton from the webcam, then the game throws away raw pixel distances and computes only the rotational angles between joints. Those angles drive a single fixed-size on-screen dummy, so every player, regardless of height or build, is rendered as the exact same character with zero calibration. Scoring is the percent match between the Athlete's pose and the Saboteur's hole.
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