Posele

by Luke Joo, Smit Patel, John Arroyo, and Tyler Monaghan

Requirements

'user' refers to a logged-in user unless otherwise specified

Tier 0: MVP

Details

user experience

• Users can open our app on up-to-date iPhone or Android device
• Users can Sign Up for an account by providing an email address and password
• Users can Log In to the app by providing their email address and/or username and password
• Users can select a PLAY button to play a randomly selected posele
• A guest can play a trial with a single posele
• Users can see their "score"
  • how many posele's they have successfully matched out of 5
  • users score persists and will display on log-in even if they leave or logout of the app

engineering requirements

• Five 'poseles' hosted through Firebase. Each posele consists of an image and a ML model that is trained to recognize the posture/pose of the image subject.
• Create a machine learning model for each posele
• Train the model with our own poses.
• Users authenticate via Firebase
• User database model is established in Firebase

gameplay

When a user presses play to begin a posele:

• User is provided instructions and prompted to be sure they are in a space where they can move and take photographs safely

• User is presented with an image

• User presses READY button

• User device camera opens; photograph is captured after 5 second countdown

• User is taken to a screen telling them whether they matched the posele (pass/fail)

Tier 1

Details

user experience

• As a user,
• A guest:
• Can’t view global leader board, or anonymized
• Global leader board: can view your score and others’ scores
• Screenshot/share your score
• User can select new gameplay option: multi-user party mode (local)

engineering requirements

gameplay

Users can now select a new game mode: local hot-phone multiplayer ("party mode")

• User will be prompted to select a number of players

• Instructions will appear on screen (players should complete one posele then pass the phone)

• The game will rapidly display a posele for each player with a short delay and message to PASS the device between each

• After all poseles are complete, show a scoreboard showing the results for each player

Tier 2

Details

user experience

• Daily limit - can only attempt one posele per day
  • accounts marked as admin can ignore this limit and play over and over
• Users can share link to specific pose/share their results after completing a posele
• Friends: Users can mark other players on the leaderboard as "Friends"
• Users can filter leaderboard to show only friends
• Share username
• Add/remove friends by username
• Each user friends list
• Friends private leader board

engineering requirements

• database model must have a way of indicating whether an account has admin permissions
• players who are not admin can't access poseles other than the current daily posele

Tier ∞

Details

user experience

• Additional user stats and metrics available, e.g:
  • % of users who successfully completed this posele
  • current streak of correct poseles
  • current daily streak
• Display POSEle rank
• Subscription to allow users to send us money
• User can select to receive daily push notification reminders of daily posele at select time
• User can receive push notifications alerting them that a friend has shared or completed a posele
• New gameplay mode: Synchronous game experience
• Share pose improvements:
  • Share button redirects to social networking site with pre-formed post including screenshot and link
• Link to the same pose the user attempted (from outside of app)
• Practice mode: play without a timer to understand the game mechanics without time pressure
• Camera overlay: the partially-transparent image source is overlaid over the camera preview when counting down to take posele photo
• Choose difficulty (easy vs hard)
• Post to Instagram/Twitter

gameplay

• new gameplay mode: remote synchronous multiplayer ("BYOD" party mode)

  • one user starts the app and selects this option, then "host"
  • user is provided with a short code to share with friends
  • friends start the app and select this option, then "join"
  • friends each enter the key and are joined to the host lobby
  • once all players have joined, host can press Play
  • all players play the same single posele simultaneously. Hijinks ensue

• altering difficulty changes the selection of poseles available and time limit

engineering requirements

• Admin panel - admin users can access backend and add/edit/delete users, poseles, and leaderboards via the app or a web portal

• Add license