Projects / Side projects
Vroom.
An arcade driving game for my nephew, built in SceneKit with motion tuned to feel smooth in small hands.
- Stack
- Swift, SceneKit, iOS
- Scale
- One very demanding user
- Role
- Solo
Flow.
- Touch input
- Smoothed steering
- SceneKit physics
- Camera follow
- Frame
How it works.
Steering input is smoothed and clamped so a child's thumbs produce smooth motion without jitter, and the camera follows with a slight lag to keep the horizon steady.
Hard parts.
- Making it feel good mattered more than making it accurate.
Outcome.
Played daily by its audience of one.