Gester

🥉 Third Place Winner @ Boilermake XI | DevPost

Gester is a creative collection of games utilizing an in-house gesture processing library that reads in webcam data to generate an approximation of your hand moving on a desk.

Gester was created as an entry in the 36-hour Boilermake XI Hackathon. You can find the entry here.

Contributors:

• Kai Tinkess
• Alex Hunton
• Kian Nowrouzi

Getting Started

First, run

git submodule update --init --recursive

These instructions will be for MacOS only.

First, install some dependcies and restart your shell:

brew update
brew install pyenv
brew install pipx

Make sure that you follow the pyenv directions to set up your shell.

Now navigate to this directory (gester/):

pyenv install 3.10.5
pyenv local 3.10.5

Now get poetry (our dependency manager), create a virtual environment, and install our dependencies:

pipx install poetry
poetry shell
poetry install

If you are having trouble running poetry shell due to python versioning, try poetry env use $(pyenv which python).

Finally, you are able to launch a game as follows:

python games/gallery.py

Screenshots

You can find more information and screenshots on the Devpost.