Mimetik

Winner of Best Entertainment Prize from HackHarvard 2022

Winner of 1st place in Metaverse Category from HackHarvard 2022

Mimetik was built based on the idea to integrate live mocap from the movement of the person into alternate worlds. It was built over a 2-day hackathon  in October 2022 in which the effective development period was 24 hours, including the production of all its 3D assets.

Mimetik is a one-day early demo which showcases our team's presentation slide deck dispersed inside the mountains, architecture and outerspace islands in the game. In order to play, the player has to download Pose Link app to their phone, and connect the phone with the game, in order to send live movement to the player character to maneuver them with your body's movements. While you run, walk, dance, point, or crouch, the AI-empowered live mocap is precise to fingers, with very little latency.

Mimetik's presentation was presented in the format of a performance, physically and virtually acting, moving through the game to aim at each slide of our deck. Currently this game is in a demo phase where you can move around to see our slides and dance with Snoop Dogg (built over the extremity of a day and a night), but it does contain a hidden game mechanism: the player has to find the "portal" to collide into to enter the next scene.

Hint: You can fly your character by flapping your "wings"(physical arms).

Concept: Yiou Wang, Eduardo Schuch, Ismael Xique, Kai Jiao

Game designer and developer: Yiou Wang

3D environment art: Kai Jiao

Slide deck: Eduardo Schuch and Ismael Xique

Presentation actor: Eduardo Schuch

Presentation voice over: Ismael Xique