The central objective was to design a synchronous multiplayer gaming experience capable of creating a technological bridge between mobile and the big screen. Through the concept of "coopetition," the mission consisted of transforming the smartphone into a dynamic controller to steer a team confrontation (Margherita vs Fromagio) on a shared 3D screen. The main challenge was to smooth out the physical interaction while managing a chaotic and playful zone-control gameplay (the pizza).

This project was carried out during a workshop at the École de design Nantes Atlantique by a multidisciplinary team of six students. In a rapid development environment, we had to exploit real-time communication technologies (WebSockets) to synchronize players' actions and integrate live video feeds via WebRTC, thus transforming a simple game into an immersive social experience.

The major challenge lay in managing latency and fluidity: on the one hand, ensuring an immediate response between the movement on the smartphone and the action on the screen, and on the other hand, stabilizing the players' camera feeds via PeerJS in a frantic gaming context. It was also necessary to calibrate the gameplay balance (slowing down the pizza carrier) to encourage passing rather than individual play, while overcoming my own initial technical limitations thanks to AI.