Hello! We are six non-blond people in a very blond city (hi Malmö 👋), attending the every-[non]hair-type-welcome AI & Games Summer School.
We come from Italy, Spain, Peru, and Scotland, and we’ve built this small (but fierce 💥) project in just a day and a half during the Game Jam. The times we didn’t sleep? Honestly, mostly because we were out drinking blonde beers 🍺 — for research purposes, obviously.
Think Subway Surfers... and now forget all about it because:
- You don't collect coins.
- You don't press buttons.
- And you're occasionally held hostage by memes.
Yes, really.
You dodge obstacles using your eyes, thanks to an eye-tracking system built into Unity. But we made it even dumber smarter: sometimes a meme will pop up on the screen, and the only way to make it disappear is by looking directly at it. That’s right: you must acknowledge the meme to proceed. You can’t escape it. This is your life now.
Well… we were planning to build a Python-based ML eye tracker from scratch. Then we found out Unity already had a plugin for that.
So the two ML experts on the team did what any responsible machine learning engineers would do:
Pivoted to full-time meme collection.
And meme deployment.
And now, meme README writing.
- The player moves left and right based on your gaze (using Unity's eye-tracking integration).
- Obstacles come flying at you like your to-do list.
- Memes pop up randomly. You have to look at them to make them disappear (mechanic not actually implemented - click the X instead as usual ^^).
- Hit an obstacle and it’s game over. Or laugh too hard at the meme and forget to dodge — also game over.
- Unity (C#) for the game logic.
- Unity Eye Tracking Plugin (because reinventing the wheel is for people with more time).
- A curated set of premium-quality memes 😎.
- A whole lot of not doing ML
Note
1. It works on our machines™️
2. Works best with functioning eyes and questionable humor tolerance.
- Clone this repo.
- Open the Unity project.
- Run the scene.
- Look around. Obey the memes. Dodge the chaos.
Important
Eye-tracking requires a webcam and decent lighting. Try not to game in a cave.
Sometimes the meme just wants to be looked at forever.
If your eyes are too small, the tracker might get shy.
Game does not detect side-eye (yet).
We are SixNonBlondes, aka:
🇮🇹 Nini, Zozo and Teo (honorific mention to Toto) - Mama mia 🤌.
🇪🇸 Yei
🇵🇪 Dan
🇬🇧 Vin
No blondes were involved in the making of this game. The only blondes involved were the beers. And they were deeply appreciated. 🍻
MIT – feel free to use, break, or stare at it for as long as you want.
