TapIt is an interactive game, that will promote a sense of community and contribute to the good experience and atmosphere at Roskilde Festival 2019.
The game can sense and react to physical movements, using 24 infrared sensors. It is build around a solid trolley with a steel frame, which has a tabletop measuring 80 x 80 cm. The plate is divided into 25 smaller fields, that can light up in different colors.
There are four participants per game that are assigned a color each. When the game starts, the board fields begin to light up in a random color pattern. For the individual player, the game is about hitting the field that lights up in their assigned color, before it turns off. You must have quick hands – the fastest player wins the game.
TapIt is supposed to activate campers during the warm-up days and allow them to test their cognitive abilities. The game will entertain the contestants and challenge their concentration, reaction and speed. TapIt respects those who party with temperance.
Many drunk or hungover festival participants will be challenged by the game and they will experience how their senses are hampered by drinking. Participants Blood alcohol content (BAC) is measured before gamestart, so we can research how the festival visitors' reaction time increases as the BAC increases.
During Roskilde Festival TapIt was used to entertain festival guests and to make them aware of the amount of alcohol they had consumed and how it affected their ability to react in the game. Part of our research was to test the game itself, and here we got great feedback from the participants. Participants of all ages and alcohol levels came to try TapIt, and the most clear results we got, was that they all left the game with a big smile on their face. The game was very well received and showed great entertainment value.
We found that the results depended more on who was playing the game rather than their alcohol level, except for the few cases where the participants were very drunk and therefore didn’t notice their colors. The game instead proved to be a fun way to start the discussion of alcohols impact.