LUMEN DUEL
Fastest fingers, first!
Lumen Duel is a fast, competitive two-player reaction game powered by an Arduino Uno, built in a timeframe of 24 hours. Designed around speed and split-second decision making, the game turns a single button press into a visible duel of light.
Course: Physical Computing
Mentors: Massimo Banzi, Jose Chavarría
Team: Gahan, Rohan
The brief was simple and intense: ideate, design, and build a time-based two-player game in 24 hours using Arduino. The only non-negotiable constraint, the Arduino and breadboard had to be completely hidden, keeping the experience seamless, playful, and visually magic, not technical.
Each player gets a controller built around a single-button interaction, keeping the gameplay intuitive and high-intensity. Every press drives a wave of LED pixels from their edge toward the centre, visually tracking momentum, tension, and progress in real time. The first player whose light reaches the middle wins the round, no menus, no complexity, just reflex, rivalry, and payoff.
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