Pencil Pushers

Website:
http://peteralfredsmith.com/pencilpushers/

Features:
• Unique control via real KS Deluxe Wall-Mount Pencil Sharpeners!
• Head-to-head competitive action
• Special effects!
• Don’t worry about shavings!
• Wait maybe that would make a good mechanic!

Description:
Pencil Pushers is a game that sets players against each other in an effort to escape detention. The player that manages to sharpen more of the teacher’s pencils is free to leave, while the other is doomed to remain in detention FOREVER! Pencil Pushers is played through the use of modified Boston KS Deluxe Wall-Mount Pencil Sharpeners that behave as mice. The crank provides y-axis input and a button mounted inside the pencil shaft provides left mouse button clicks. A special driver connected to a Unity game allows for the separation of input from the mice for head-to-head action.

Contributions:
Game design, programming, and API-integration in a two-person collaboration.

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