Hey all,

Next Sunday I’ll probably will be nursing a hangover from the friend’s wedding I attened the day before, and will have nothing to do until my plane leaves Monday afternoon. So a perfect excuse to do a groggy half-serious attempt at entering the contest. Also, peer pressure from friends who may or may not be named Thomas ten Cate. Never really made a game before, actually.

Anyway, the rules state that you can use personal code you wrote before if you share it with the public? Alright, it just so happens that I’m designing a gesture recognition system for stack manipulation (don’t ask), but the results are pretty interesting and might be used as a general input scheme where you can “chain” these 24 different gestures for different effects (click to see the animation):

Here is the code

As you can see, its in Processing 2.0 (and uses a few features that prevent it from being used in Processing.js at the moment). The names of the constants representing different arrows might appear a bit odd, as it was originally written for an interface involving manipulating stacks held in left or right hands (hence the “handedness”). I’ll leave code cleanup as an exercise for the reader ;).

It’s under a “do whatever you want, but a thank you + shout out is appreciated” licence.

Cheers, looking forward to see what everyone will make next week!

Job van der Zwan