Sound Flappy
Flappy Bird, except your microphone is the controller. The louder you are, the higher the bird climbs; silence lets it fall. A small mobile game jam at Torshus folkehøyskole, in the same wave as Tactic Blobs and Blink Shooter.
How it worked
- Microphone input sampled and reduced to a smoothed loudness signal.
- Loudness mapped to vertical velocity. Soft floor, no ceiling.
- The usual Flappy obstacle pattern, but tuned for a control surface that is very different from a tap.
The thing about voice-controlled games
They are unplayable in public, which is funny once and a problem after that. The most interesting design constraint of the project was making the game readable enough to play at quiet volumes (humming, not shouting) so that more than five people on Earth would ever finish it.