An interactive wall of chocolate

Its been everybody’s dream at one point or other to be caught outside in the rain, and have it turn into raining chocolate! Well, I was lucky enough to program an interactive wall effect that did just that, it made virtual chocolate pour out of the sky, and you don’t even have to get your feet wet!

Chocolate Rain is an interactive experience where you can wander into a shower of Chocolate Buttons that bounce off your head and roll along your arms – if you put up an umbrella then the buttons bounce off you onto the floor. Cup your hands and you can try to catch them!

Its great to play

Its so much fun to play with this huge interactive wall that tracks your shadows in real-time and allows a special physics engine that I coded calculate hundreds and thousands of chocolate button effects live! Before your eyes! It starts off with a little drip-drop-drip of a few chocolate buttons, then the rain gets faster and faster, into a storm! After a while, it all builds up into one HUGE chocolate button that you can kick and punch and bounce around just like a basketball!

Feedback

I had a huge amount of very positive feedback from the Chocolate rain interactive experience at Cadbury World. One of the best things about this is that it requires no keyboard, mouse or other controller to interact. you just use your body! Anyone can play, by yourself or in huge groups. And because its based around my own physics engine, everything works how you would expect it to work in the real world, creating an amazing and fun experience that is just like being covered from head to toe in liquid chocolate!

Thanks to Sam Willis and the team at Newangle

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