You are god. Your power lies within your hand.
Position you hand in front of the camera and your powers will take effect where you index finger's tip is.
In order to activate your powers, you must touch your index finger and your thumb.
To start the game you must choose where the civilization will be located.
Choose a nice and cozy place for the miniscule mortal beings and watch as they grow their civilization.
All powers are related to a specific hand gesture to activate. Gestures are a combination of extended fingers. After activation, the Hand of God changes to the color of the chosen power. Each power has a specific God Points cost associated, which is shown during gameplay.
Creates a plot of farmland in an empty grass plot.
Cost: 50 GP per plot
Gesture: Index finger extended
Creates a plot of forest in an empty grass plot.
Cost: 50 GP per plot
Gesture: Index and middle finger extended
Burns and kills everyone that comes in touch with the power.
Income: 500 GP per soul burned
Gesture: Index, middle and ring finger extended
Bring the wrath of God to those in range. Obliterates all beings and plots of land in a large area.
Quite explosive. Use at own risk!
Cost: 2500 per Judgment
Gesture: Index, middle, ring and pinky fingers extended
The world is procedurally generated every time the game starts, making every run unique with different challenges.
Color: Light Green
Free plot of land that can be transformed into a farmland or forest by God.
Color: Light Blue
Plot of land that cannot be transformed into farmland or forest. Workers can traverse water by the use of a boat.
Color: Yellow
Plot of land capable of producing food by a farmer.
Color: Dark Green
Plot of land capable of producing wood by a woodcutter.
Color: Dark Grey
Plot of land that is left behind from the Final Judgement. Has no use nor can it be recovered.
The people consume food during time. The more people there are, the more food they consume.
Each house can fit 5 people. To build more houses the civilization needs wood. Watch the civilization grow as the people build more houses.
The houses are represented by different shades of brown rectangles that are built around the civilization center.
In this society, everybody is born with a specific job for life.
Color: Red
Goes to a plot of farmland and creates food for the civilization.
Color: Orange
Goes to a plot of forest and creates wood for the civilization.
Color: Pink
Goes to the closest food resource produced by farmers and brings it to the civilization to be used.
Color: Blue
Goes to the closest wood resource produced by woodcutters and brings it to the civilization to be used.
In order to track the hand and the position of its different elements I used ML5.js PoseNet.
PoseNet also gives access to the state of each finger, such as if it's curled or extended.
I then map the positions of the fingers to the index of the world's map tiles.
The world uses a noise texture for the procedural generation.
The values from the texture are used to choose what type of plot each tile will be.
The settings of the noise texture give the world a nice mix of land and sea, filling in the land with forests and farmlands.
The workers function with an A* search for the detection of their resources to work on.
The movement works in a simple straight line, as adding more complex movement was creating a lot of lag with the amount of moving pieces plus PoseNet reading the players input at all times.
To combat the straight line movement, workers get boats when they are on water, at least this way they don't seem to randomly gain the power to walk on the sea.
The city spawns houses randomly around the city center, trying to mimic a growing civilization as the number of houses grow.
