Pipa Arcade

Christian deWeck

In this game, you control a miniature kite with a spool of string on a track and your goal is to cut down your opponent's kite while both of your kites are flying above a fan.

Players muct be able to keep their kite in the fan zone so that it stays up in the air and they must watch out for the other player's kite.
Players can move their kite up and down, ascend and decsend, and use any strategy withtin the rules to win.
Players can hit eachother's kites witht heir own and cut the line of the kites.
The game is replayable because you just have to restart the fan to begin.
The game is fair
The game is all about hand-eye coordination along with staying in the fan ring

In my game, I thought of simulate the lift a kite would get in the air by using a fan. The idea That I though of was partialy inspired from air hockey. I would have a board with a fan in the center and off to the sides of it would be little tracks that would move hand cranked spools of string down. You can move the spool up and down the track as well as rotate it. You can increase or decrease the altitude of the kite by cranking out more string from the spool while moving it. I created this out of cardboard and wooden dowels along with using hot glue and electrical tape to keep everything in place. This captures the essence of kite fight because it gives you the control that flying a kite would be like and it is two person. I did not include to cut down and capture aspect of thsi game because I think it would be too dificult to inplment beace you would have to reattach the kite each time you cut it down. overall I would say I was slightly sucessfull at capturing the essence of this game beacuse I was able to control the kites but the fan made them flap all around with is not what it is like in kite fighting. I would advance the project further by making a new version made out of wood with presice measurments, and I would also try to get a better fan. Another Way I could advance it is to have customizable kites. I might also try to add some sort of funnel to control the airflow of the fan.