FACE ROYALE
A downloadable game
Have you ever found yourself trapped on an island with multiple other players, and the only way to get out is to fight with other competitors to survive by taking selfies? Neither do I, I can't say I have.
But that's the premise of Face Royale, a battle-royale game in which the players need to take selfies to survive!
The game is developed using Processing/p5.js and creative design to time and connect multiple phones without networking. Each phone is turned into a terminal where the camera activates at random intervals. Players need to find and position themselves in front of the phone to take a selfie and be recognized to advance to the next round.
Groups can have 12-15 players, and phones should be placed on the walls of the play area (images for reference). Once all phones are set, all players press the game's start button, and the first round begins. Every round, a random interval will activate a random number of phones/cameras, and players need to have their faces recognized to proceed to the next round. In typical battle-royale fashion, the last player surviving wins the game.
This project was made by Kunal Devi, Vitor Fiacadori and Yiqun Zhou.
The game project can be accessed and played here:
INSTRUCTIONS:
Players: 12-15
Equipment needed: phones; some way of propping phones up at different heights (e.g.: tripods, sticky pads, magnetic mounts)
Delimit play area and place phones on mounts, where players within play area can face the phones and take selfies. This is a prototype and contains bugs, gameplay may not be smooth. The key is starting the game in sync, the timing in starting the game is important.
p5.js may ask for your consent to access your phone's camera, which is required to play the game.
The game was last tested in November 2023.
