Hasidic Tower

An Icy Tower-style canvas platformer you can play with your hands, via webcam tracking.

Trailer

Climbing the tower: character select, the platforms and collectibles, the enemies that get in the way, and the webcam hand tracking steering it all. Watch on YouTube →

Overview

A vertical-scrolling platformer written in vanilla canvas 2D with selectable characters, enemies, collectibles and a leaderboard. The interesting part is the input layer: alongside keyboard and touch, it supports optional webcam hand tracking through MediaPipe Tasks Vision, so you steer the character by moving your hand in front of the camera.

What makes it interesting

Webcam hand-tracking input via MediaPipe Tasks Vision, running fully client-side in WASM
Three input modes sharing one controller abstraction: keyboard, touch, hand tracking
18 ES modules with a clean loop / state / renderer split
Selectable characters, enemies, collectibles and a persistent leaderboard

Technology

6 technologies, grouped by the job they do in this project.

Languages

JavaScript

Real-time 3D & games

Canvas 2D
WebAssembly
Web Audio API

AI & computer vision

MediaPipe

Tooling & delivery

Vercel

At a glance

Year: 2026
Status: Live
Technologies: 6

Repository

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Name: RoeeSivan/hasidic-tower
Primary language: JavaScript
Repository size: 34.2 MB
Last push: April 2026
Stars: 1