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Some of the improvements are:
- More sophisticated sound system instead of
just simple sine wave melodies: Unfortunately, the sound
track of our game currently are homophonic due to the limitation of the
hardware. A sound chip (Yamaha Synthesizer, MIDI, etc.) which allows
polyphonic audio will allow us to program better songs to resemble the
songs which we used in the games. This will also enhances the gaming
experience of the player. In addition, if we have more memory on the
sound board, we will be able to store more complicated songs which can
enhance the variations and difficulties of the songs.
- Real dancing mat: We
currently use keypad buttons as our gaming controls. However, our
game will be improved if we can use real dancing mat that are sold in the
market. This will not only improve the complexity of the appearance
of our game, this will actually improve the gaming experience because the
player can really "dance" on the mat.
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Portable version? One
downside of our game is that we need to use the A/C power supply and also
the STK 500 and STK 200 board to play the game. If we can add
portable power supply to the programming board, then players can bring the
game around to play as long as a TV with video and audio input is
available.
- Better Game Termination Scheme:
The game terminates when the whole song is played and when all the
arrows are shown. However, if given more time, we would like to
implement another game termination scheme - the game terminates when the
player miss too many arrows in the course of the game.
- Better Game Termination Scheme:
Keypad polling take place every 33msec. However, the average
human reaction time is between 100-200msec. Thus, the keypad polling
time may induce a large error. However, since we are working on TV,
we are restricted against using interrupt as our keypad polling device.
Thus, if given more time, we would like to work on getting interrupt to
work on keypad polling while remains in sync with the video pulse.
- Multiplayer: It will be more
fun if two players can play at the same time.
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