Enter the jungle if you dare...

You and your friends are camping in the jungle when all of a sudden, hungry wild animals come out to attack you!

Jungle Jam is the bridge between the physical and digital worlds of interaction. In this fast-paced game players use a physical slingshot to launch food at a projection of jungle animals. Feed them quickly or get eaten.

GAME OBJECTIVES

Stay Vigilant

Tigers spawn randomly leaving you anticipating their next attack. Don’t let them get too close!

Get Moving

Use our slingshot to aim and launch food at the hungry tigers. Time to test your speed, strength and accuracy.

Smile!

Win or lose, our game will make you smile with our humorous animations. Who knew tigers crave pizza too?

MEET THE TEAM

Anna Leung

Project Manager + Visual Designer

Dylan Gomer

Lead Developer

Will Salerno

Visual Designer

Hun Choi

Developer

Devon Kirkwood

Visual Designer

Andy Huang

Developer

Simon Morrier

Visual Designer

Andrew Beach

Developer

THE VISUALS

Illustration Kit

We created simple, vibrant, vector illustrations to capture people's attention, easily identifiable, and appeal to younger audiences.

Animation

We animated everything in Adobe After Effects, then exported into a sequence of PNGs to be utlized by the developers as sprites.

Slingshot

We handbuilt a 3ft tall wooden slingshot with a moveable base to enhance the hands-on experience of our game.

Stickers

We custom printed tiger logo stickers to give away to our players during our Imagine RIT exhibit.

Marketing

We printed posters, hanged them around campus targeting high foot-traffic areas, and managed an Instagram account to promote our Imagine RIT exhibit. Give us a follow @JungleJamRIT

THE DEVELOPMENT

Technology

Jungle Jam uses motion tracking with a camera to determine the play area and ball location.

Tools

Our developers utilized Python along with OpenCV and Pygame libraries.

OpenCV is a Python library that provides tools for image processing and computer vision. In Jungle Jam, OpenCV is used to handle projectile tracking and object detection.

Pygame is a python module that is designed for game development in Python. Pygame has computer graphics and sound libraries. Pygame manages all of the visuals of the game, the changing of menus based on events and a timer, and the sound effects and music.

IMAGINE RIT 2022 EXHIBIT

400

game runs

1200

lines of code

1 

award

We Won an Award!

Jungle Jam was named honorable mention for the 2022 Imagine RIT Applied Critical Thinking competition. The award recognizes contributions made to furthering Applied Critical Thinking at RIT through the process and creation of an Imagine RIT exhibit.

See the Jungle

Missed seeing our exhibit in person? Check out our highlights of the day!