Interactive Beating Drum Unity Game

In this research, we introduce an interactive beating drum game built on the Unity game engine. Our objective is to address the social and mental health impacts of the pandemic, particularly among older individuals. Using the Unity engine, we have developed a sports and social platform. And we employed Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chip to transmit drumming signals to the Unity engine following the Bluetooth (BT) protocol. Then, the user interface on the tablet in our game will show the drum locations beat by user. Our game offers single player mode and multiplayer mode. The multiplayer mode provides social network features. Players need to strike the falling icons on the drum in conformity with the rhythm of the music. The game will assess precision and give reward points at the end of the game. In accordance with experimental findings, the elderly participants considered that the system is user-friendliness. (c) 2022 The Author. Published by Sugisaka Masanori at ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).