Wild Marble Beats

A game made for the 48 hour GMTK Game Jam of 2020. The theme was "Out of Control".

I Interpreted it as a way of making a game without any regular controls from the player as in mouse or keyboard. Instead, I decided to use your voice as input to indirectly move a marble (not voice commands but rather the mere existence of sound) and watch as you make people around you think you've gone bonkers!

Move a marble by using your microphone to maneuver a conveniently designed board of wooden cubes full of speakers that follow a beat or the sound of your own voice?!

Speaker Breakdown:
- Blue: Controlled by bursts of sound, so when sound goes above a certain threshold it will activate (short words or snapping fingers)
- Green: Controlled by constant sound, maintaining a voice above threshold will keep pushing the marble (mmm sound, blowing on mic, or maintaining any kind of tone)
- Red: Switched on by the cube next to it and emits a burst as well but based on a beat, not controlled by your sound at all. (Goal is to switch all of them on)

Notes:
- No controls, just have a microphone, try to get to the end, it's rather short.
- Didn't have plenty of microphones to test with, so added a calibration option in case there was too much noise, or mic was too low
- What I usually used while testing is simple words like "go", "jump", the sound of snapping my fingers or pretending to talk to my pug for the fear of seeming lost all semblance of sanity to anyone around me.

Known issues (Fixed in update):
- Recent versions of Unreal have SteamVR plugin enabled by default (and I forgot to disable it) which causes the game to open it on launch and might take control over your mic because steam does that sometimes, so please check if mic input is the correct one if you cannot move the marble.
- When played on a low-end machine, the other marble will phase out of the slope.