The Tree Game

Synaptic Tree is playful, and by that we mean that it can play one game. The tree game is a memory game using five touch pads located around the tree trunk. Each touch pad has a color. Typically one person per touch pad, but people can double up on touch pads if you have fewer folks, but it may be challenging to play with less than three people.

You start the game by touching any of the pads for at least five seconds. The tree will light up bright white and make a shimmer sound when the game is activated. It will cycle through all colors, pause for two seconds then light up the first color to remember. The player assigned to the corresponding touch pad color must touch their pad within three seconds to progress the game. It will display the first color again and then add another color to remember. Each player must touch their pad in the order that the tree displayed them.

The game continues until someone touches an incorrect pad or waits too long to touch a pad which ends that game and the game over animation plays (tree lights up bright red). If you manage to get through the maximum number of rounds, you win the game (tree flashes green). When the game ends, the tree returns to its animation cycle.

By default the tree game will require you go 10 rounds to win the game, but this can be configured through software update. 

The software for Synaptic Tree was written in C++ with Arduino. You can find the code on GitHub here.