Jumpy Hands
Building a Gesture-Controlled Serverless Game on AWS How we built Jumpy Hands — a browser-based game controlled entirely by hand gestures — using MediaPipe, HTML5 Canvas, and a fully serverless AWS backend. The Idea We wanted to build something interactive for an AWS Summit booth — something that would catch people’s attention, get them to stop and play, and showcase the power of serverless AWS services in a tangible way. The result: **Jumpy Hands**, a Flappy Bird-style game where players use their webcam to control the game character with hand gestures. Open hand to glide, clench a fist to jump. No keyboard, no controller — just your hands. How it […]