Project Name

Fencing Club

 

Group Members

Jaixi Pan, Sam Kingston, Leanna Barwick

 

Project Description

Based on the book “Fencing”, Fencing Club is a 1-3 player online game, built using p5.js and Pubnub. Players practice fencing technique, competing to improve speed, accuracy and sword handling skills.

Gameplay is viewed on a shared screen. Phones are used as real fencing foils. Optional “foil handle” phone holder accessory can be fabricated using the downloadable 3D printing file.

Players start and learn fencing moves on the welcome page; en garde (accesses phone’s gyroscope, scores how the phone is angled in stillness), lunge (accesses phone’s accelerometer, scores how fast the phone is thrust outwards), and parry (accesses phone’s accelerometer, scores how fast the phone is withdrawn towards the body). Foils for mobile devices and the game area are also accessed here.

Entering the game area, a ten second countdown starts. When the timer completes, one fencing movement appears in green (the other two in red), a new four second timer starts, and players perform the green highlighted movement, receiving a real-time score based on their performance. This repeats in a succession of five rounds of randomly selected movements, after which the game is over, and the winner is displayed, based on who has the highest total score.

 

Project Development

 

Prototype for game area

 

3D printed fencing foil handle phone holder accessory

Video: testing the code for the mobile phone fencing foil

https://vimeo.com/363362608

 

Network Diagram

 

 

 

Final Work

 

 

 

fencing foil handle phone holder accessory

 

Mobile phone navigated to Player 1 fencing foil

 

En Garde! title screen

 

Game area screen

 

 

Links to Code

https://github.com/Leanna-B/fencing-club

 

 

Links to Working Files

Fencing Club Welcome Page

Fencing Club Game Area

Fencing Club Player 1 Foil

Fencing Club Player 2 Foil

Fencing Club Player 3 Foil