Ruin The Traffic
Ruin the Traffic is a Kinect game. The player is a policeman who gets tired of life and wants to destroy the city starting with ruining the traffic.
​
We want players will be able to feel fun and release their stress by becoming the controller of the city in the game. They need to move their whole body to touch vehicles to get scores.
Video Walkthrough
Teammates
Role
Duration
Platform
Genre
Zifeng Ding, Kevin Slackie
UI Design, artist
2 Weeks
Unity, Kinect
Simulator, QTE
Early Design Thoughts
It is our first time using the Kinect alternative to make a game. Since this machine can detect the whole body of a human, I want to make a game that forces players to move around and get a little bit of exercise. So I thought about making a simulator.
​
Our first idea was about Directing traffic, but when we working on coding, we found it is hard to decide the direction of the player's arms when they pointed to specific angles or did some poses. So we had a meeting changing the mechanic. And finally, we decided to make it simple and funny: just ruin everything! Be a mess!
Playtest & Refine
We reduced the size of the road, so players would have enough space to play and the Kinect machine would be able to detect players since their movements have been slowed down.
We also changed the model to a cute policewoman and added a scoring system.
Playing records
