This game is designed as a simple PoC for a later version that I am working on. It is a game in which the user creates pixelated versions of images to be presented to a live audience who will have to guess the subject of the image before any of the other contestants can manage to do so.
The program is a python tkinter application that directs the user through creating the pixelated images, this process was automated in earlier versions of the program but actually took longer as it required large amounts of human curation anyway. The user creating the game selects a folder containing only images on their device and a suitable location for the created images to be saved. The program has an option to automatically take the saved images and put them (in random order) into a pptx file that can be then used to present the game to a live audience. The saved files are not necessary to run the game once the pptx has been created but they could be used if the user had some alternate way they wished to present the images. The game is designed so that it will use the Pixelate Logo (saved as "example image.jpg") as an example image, should the user wish to use some other image as their example they should simply save their example image in the same directory as the application and name it "example image.jpg"
The rules of the game I used were like so:
- Contestants buzz in in order to answer
- If they guess incorrectly they are out until the next image is loaded
- If all but one of the contestants is out then the remaining contestant only gets to improve clarity by one level before making their guess, if they fail that guess then all contestants are in again
- If someone can give a more specific but still correct answer they may steal the point but otherwise I allowed any answer that demonstrated an understanding of what the thing was (this was particularly importnat when we did paintings and nobody knew the names)
I have limited coding experience and this was an extension of one of the very first projects that I worked on so is not entirely well formatted. the code is all hand written