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Neural Network Ratatouille

By polegar

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2413.5546
Fun3573.2544
Innovation34.5745
Theme3583.5744
Graphics5632.6944
Humor2482.9544
Mood4662.8043

Comments

nander 2018-04-24 12:59

It actually works!! The game itself isn't that special, but the technique actually works, nice!

faloon 2018-04-24 13:32

Yes, true. Astonishing.

ananace 2018-04-24 15:24

Well, that actually worked much better than I expected it to, though the gameplay is quite simplistic.

Can't say I've played many games with webcam controls.

legavroche 2018-04-24 15:31

This webcam control game is fun and innovative! The technicality of this game is astonishing. deep neural network programming(for machine learning?) + webcam + tensor flow and building the game in Javascript is a plus plus plus!

microwerx 2018-04-24 15:36

That was pretty cool. I thought it was innovative to use your webcam for training a neural net.

incobalt 2018-04-24 22:52

It took me far too long to realize I had to click the train button even though it was written right here >.< This was cool and very innovative! I do wish that it was attached to a more drawn-out game, though.

aplite 2018-04-24 22:56

What a unique mechanic! Really impressive and it works well given the limited time constraint. The movement was hard to get precise so avoiding the traps was difficult at times.

To help players get used to the mechanic you could start them off in a room with just a piece of cheese, and then move them into the room with traps and cheese. I killed myself a couple of times at the very start and had to redo the setup process each time.

polegar 2018-04-25 09:24

Thank you everyone for the kind comments :) . @incobalt @aplite I just posted a post comp version with some fixes for the issues you encountered (add a restart with R, and the button "let's cook" is no longer visible if you don't train the model)

orteil 2018-04-25 11:13

oh dang, that actually works great ! good stuff

gastricsparrow 2018-04-25 13:18

Wow, as a machine learning novice I love what you've done here. I've been looking into how to incorporate machine learning into games, and here you are making this on a whim! Great innovation happening, love it.

jfraser314 2018-04-25 20:19

Difficult but hilarious. Had my class playing this for a while, here is one of my students trying (made sure to use one that wasn't too embarrassing). Thanks for the great idea (though it made me dizzy)

Nerual Network.gif

polegar 2018-04-25 21:37

@jfraser314 Hahaha thank you for trying it in class !

sndr 2018-04-25 23:30

Whoa, this is impressive! Unexpected entry with a lot of creativity, both on the technical side and the design one. Controls worked surprisingly smooth (I was expecting it to be a bit more fiddly), it creates a really cool challenge, and the theme is most certainly super cute. :) Loved this! Really good job!

candlesan 2018-04-26 04:49

Well that was really different! How fun. Thanks for giving this piece of tech a try and I also applaud your desire to learn something new every jam - I think that's a great idea!!!

dignz 2018-04-26 07:39

What an amazing idea! It didn't quite work for me but was close enough to see that it should be possible. I probably should've chosen more different images for the actions. Impressive and innovative technical effort and a simple little game.

weston-walker 2018-04-26 15:26

Extremely innovative idea here. Props to you for breaking out of the mold. Everything seemed to work as it should. Great job!

evandowning 2018-04-26 15:32

Neat!

team-luminous 2018-04-26 17:24

What an exciting idea! It worked — tho holding the object both left and right ended up being hard. :D I'd love a way to remove samples, too, as I added bad ones by accident.

-Rao

john-darrington 2018-04-27 02:14

Holy sh**. This was amazing - and one of my favorite ideas here this year. I was impressed with the hard work in finding a good mechanic.

sebbernery 2018-04-27 11:25

Awesome, that's a very good usage of NN in JS. And it works perfectly (for me) and gives very fun game moments (I played with my head).

mrwillowb 2018-04-27 15:31

Not bad

designernap 2018-04-27 16:30

Lovely bit of tech and game here! wonderful work!

morrilet 2018-04-29 21:52

The tech behind this was amazing, but the game itself was lacking. Stick this on a more interesting game or a series of minigames and it could be pretty cool. Full points for innovation, though, as this is a really interesting concept. Great work!

bloodyaugust 2018-04-30 07:22

Tried to play this on stream, but alas, cannot use OBS and have the webcam free at the same time. :frowning2: I'll be back to play off-stream and give further feedback.

polegar 2018-04-30 11:20

@bloodyaugust oh that's a pity it could have been fun on stream, it's good to know though.

paul-avallone 2018-04-30 22:49

This is really cool. I would love to see the game expanded to operating in a kitchen like in the movie. I am impressed how well the controls worked. Great job.

jacklehamster 2018-05-01 15:14

Le concept est pas mal. Faudrait pousser l'idée pour avoir un gameplay plus fun, mais sinon l'idée est originale.

Voilà ma video sur le jeu (parmis d'autres):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cze6Dpc6JQ

polegar 2018-05-02 12:04

@JackLeHamster Hehe je viens de voir la vidéo c'est cool que tu y ai joué :). Et oui effectivement le jeu est plutôt une expérience technologique qu'autre chose. C'était dur en 48h d'arriver à faire un gameplay sympa tout en apprenant à utiliser tensorflow JS pour détecter les mouvements par webcam. Par contre le jeu semble assez lent sur la vidéo c'est étonnant, tu as quoi comme CPU (ca doit être lié au fait que tu streamais en meme temps) ?

jacklehamster 2018-05-02 14:42

Ouais, tout est un peu plus lent que j'enregistre. C'était une bonne idée. Je pense peut être tu peux utiliser ta technologie pour faire un jeu de course, tu te mets à la place du cockpit, et suivant que tu te penches à droite ou à gauche, ça bouge la voiture dans cette direction. Et tu voix ta reflection dans le parbrise ou queq chose comme ça.

polegar 2018-05-16 10:19

@sndr @DigNZ @nander @Faloon @aplite @Orteil @Ananace @JackLeHamster @PaulAvallone @bloodyaugust @morrilet @designernap @sebbernery @JohnDarrington @TeamLuminous @evandowning @WestonWalker @candlesan @jfraser314 @GastricSparrow

Third place in innovation that's amazing ! Thank you everyone for playing, commenting and rating my game. I can't wait for the next LD !

gastricsparrow 2018-05-19 04:57

@polegar Congrats! I barely got beat out by you in innovation, shouldn't have rated you a 5... just kidding, you deserve it!