For two of my assignments this semester, I incorporated my guitar in arduino as an unusual switch for turning on LED lights. I really enjoyed working with it, and I figured that I might as well expand upon it for my final project. The idea of an unusual switch reminded me of videos I’ve watched in which people try to beat video games using modified objects as controllers — dance pads, bongos, and even bananas.
Combining my hobbies, I will create an interactive system where players will use a guitar as a gamepad of sorts to defeat enemies in a p5 game. I don’t have an idea for the actual game yet, but I expect it to have a quirky, cartoonish style inspired by the Scott Pilgrim franchise, in which the titular character is a bassist and finds himself in video-game-esque fights.