Our first award category is the “Saaaay Whaaat?” Award for Oddness. One of the nice things about Game Jam’s is it gives people a chance to experiment without fear of wasting a lot of time to get nowhere. Team Chickenheart who mostly comprised of EVE’s Security team definitely took that spirit to heart. Their game Achy Breaky Heart is controlled via a physical game board watched over by a webcam. The tech stack behind it comprised two networked PCs and a fearsome collection of code tools to represent the board as a web app. The game itself involved sliding a marker onto the board in order to hit a heart on the screen which is quite a tricky bit of spatial reasoning. It’s a bit hard to show in action so you’ll have to make do with a screenshot.
The physical game board in action.
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