Project report

Rock Paper Shoot!

Our research team set itself a challenge to gain new knowledge - with huge success! We congratulate the participants on winning first place in the “Best Game” category and second place in the “Multiplayer Challenge” category at React Jam 2023!

A dynamic graphic design showing the playable characters Scissors, Rock and Paper from the “Rock Paper Shoot!” project, which was developed at the Kreativ Institute OWL (KIO) in cooperation with the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences. The characters are cheerfully designed and interact with each other to illustrate the interactive gameplay.

Project participants

Alexander Kutter Conrad Dreyer Colin Behrens

Project status

erfolgreich abgeschlossen

We win at the React Jam!

What makes the KreativInstitut.OWL special is the proximity of theory to practice and research to business. We have rekindled this proximity with the Rock Paper Shoot ! project. The browser game was a challenge for our research team with the question: “Can we create a video game in a week and expand our knowledge of the multiuser area on the web?”

So, you also make video games?

The KreativInstitut.OWL team has not existed in this constellation for very long. Challenges like this are just the right thing to find out how we can work as a team.

The React Jam is an international competition for video game development based around web development with the React framework. The task for the fall 2023 round was to rethink a classic game.

Fabian Knof, researcher in the area of digital media production
Quote At times it was super exhausting and challenging, but I learned so many new things about the technologies we work with!

Fabian Knof

Our browser-based multiplayer game combines familiar mechanics from Rock Paper Scissors with the classic game of Pong. Players hurl rock scissors or paper at each other and can skillfully parry these confrontations, as we know it from the Rock Paper Scissors game. Accompanied by dynamic gameplay, loving graphics and illustrations, as well as a handmade, energetic soundtrack, Rock Paper Shoot ! was an adventure for the KIO team consisting of Prof. Dr. Alexander Kutter, Nicklas Scharpff, Conrad Dreyer, Fabian Knof, Colin Behrens and Nils Kröger.

A smartphone screen showing the gameplay of the
Example of use on a smartphone
Scissors Rock Paper meets Pong

The browser-based multiplayer video game was created using HTML, CSS, React and Pixi technologies.

Under “Learn more” you can try out the game for yourself!
Learn more