Jean-Michel Saulnier
All work

Jupiter Ascending

A mobile-to-desktop game controlled by smartphone motion in real time.

The game's title screen: "Jupiter Ascending, Caine's Quest" in gold letters over a burning sky.

The title screen of Caine's Quest. Images: Thinkingbox

Role
Creative technologist at Thinkingbox
With
Warner Bros. / Prototype
Year
2015
Built with
Node.js, Socket.IO, Motion sensors, Gyroscope

The project

For the release of Jupiter Ascending, Warner Bros. Pictures and Thinkingbox made a WebGL game played on a desktop screen, with the player's phone as the weapon.

My part

I created the prototype that links the two devices. The phone's gyroscope and motion sensors are read in the browser and sent through Node.js and Socket.IO to the desktop in real time.

The game on a desktop, steered from a phone
A creature from the game, twice: as a wireframe rig on the left and as the finished model on the right.
A character, rigged and rendered
A view from inside the game: a spaceship corridor seen through a visor, with a gauge that reads 100% energy.
Inside the game