Programming with Processing: Final Project Proposal

           For our Final Project, we have decided to create a physically interactive Risk game. Risk is a tactical multiplayer board game that separates the world into territories and players strive to gain power over the whole world by attacking other player’s territories.

           To make it physically interactive, we will implement processing with hardware and create a projection onto a table or board that will be the "game board". This board will be "touch sensitive" and will detect players moves throughout the game including attacks, dice rolls and loosing territories. For people new to this game, there will also be a "help" button to aid users in understanding and to help the game to be played fairly.
           Board games are an important part of learning and require players to be engaged to their position. The benefits of board games are impressive and Risk in particular: enhancing educational skills by teaching where things are located on a map, building self confidence when the hard work and strategy paid off, developing social and mental skills by communicating with other players and knowing their next move and encouraging problem solving and logic. The purpose of this project will be to engage more people into wanting to play this game by making it interactive allowing players to have more fun and feel in control.


Here are some examples of projectors with human interactivity:



This is how the actual board game looks. Our display will look similar to this: