Sound Controlled Intergalactic Teddy is an infinite runner game where you use your voice and sounds to control Teddy’s movements. If you need to jump over a green slimy alien you say “Ohhh” and to duck you simply clap your hands.
Using machine learning we have taught the game to understand and differentiate the sounds. For the game to be able to recognise and distinguish the sounds, we trained it by recording a lot of diverse "ohhh”s and claps which made it robust and easy for anyone to play.
The installation was displayed in Namur, Belgium at KIKK Festival 2017 as a part of Little.KIKK.
Støj is a creative coding studio run by (Andreas Refsgaard & Lasse Korsgaard)
Game graphics: Amalie Kvistgaard
You can play the game here: demo (Make sure to allow microphone)
To install, clone this repository and then run yarn in Terminal. This will install all the dependencies. Once these are installed, run yarn watch - this will start a local server on your machine and open up the page in your browser and you're ready to play!
Be sure to allow the browser to use the microphone, otherwise it will not work. Also be aware that due to browser safety issues, this will only work on localhost and https:// domains.
As per default the machine is trained on Ohhh and Clap sounds. If you would like to train it to recognize new sounds you can open up the training interface.
To open the training interface simply hit Shift + TAB on your keyboard.
In the training interface you can load, save and reset training data. You can also control the threshold for how sensitive the microphone should be. if you are attempting to record some new training examples, but find that nothing happens, it could be because the threshold is too high. Click Change Threshold and set it to a lower number and try again. If the sound is loud enough the sound bars on the right will turn blue.
You can clear all training data by clicking Clear All.
Now say you want to train the sound that should trigger a jump. Click and hold down the Train button under Jump and say the sound a few times (around 10-20 samples should be sufficient). Make sure the sound you're making is short and loud enough for the sound bars to turn completely blue, otherwise the sound is not recorded.
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Copyright 2017 Støj
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Sound Controlled Intergalactic Teddy makes use of the following libraries:
- KNear by Nathan Epstein.
- License: MIT. Copyright (c) 2014 Nathan Epstein
- meyda by hughrawlinson, nevosegal, jakubfiala & 2xAA
- License: MIT. Copyright (c) 2014 Hugh A. Rawlinson, Nevo Segal, Jakub Fiala