Lords of the Laundry Capstone

Lords of the Laundry is an Academic Group Project that uses two barrel alternative controller with an Arduino to clean or dirty different types of armor to put on the respective team's soldiers. Those soldiers then fight each other in a rock-paper-scissors type mechanic to determine which armor type wins.

Our prompt for this project was to create a game or virtual experience in hopes of attending Alt.Ctrl.GDC, an event at the Game Developers Conference. While our project was not accepted, we are still very proud of what we made.

I worked in a team of 11, consisting of 5 developers and 6 designers. I acted as Lead Developer and Project Manager. My responsibilities included:
• Used HTML and JavaScript with Express.js, p5.js, SerialPort, and socket.io to interface Arduino circuit with HTML webpage
• Used socket.io to collect and parse live data from Arduino, used Express.js to create app structure, implemented main game loop to read Arduino data and dynamically change game state and graphics based on user input
• Led and assisted teammates in all aspects of project development and debugging
• Organized and distributed team tasks based on team members’ skills and preferences

If I were to redo this project I would definitely do a little more research on effective libraries and build this in a much more modular way from the ground up. Even with our structural and leadership issues, though, we were able to get on track and work together to finish this project well.