Ahoy Mateys

Ahoy Matey’s is a game that takes us through the journey of pirates finding a treasure chest filled with gold. You can expect minigames like fishing, map navigation, object avoidance and site digging!

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💡 Inspiration

Why we choose treasure finding?

  • We decided on a game due to the engaging factor it provides.
  • As the topic given to us was pirates, they are most commonly associated with treasure chests and living on a ship. We thus decided that the goal of the game would be to find a treasure.
  • Based on that, we then formulate various sections that can be implemented in the game.

What games inspired us for the various sections of the game?

  • Fishing game → Backstory that the pirates were hungry and thus, decided to fish for food but ended up fishing a bottle that contained a treasure map
  • Map Navigation → The most logical flow after finding the map is to navigate to get to the destination
  • Obstacles faced along the way → On the way to navigate to the location stated on the map, the pirates are bound to face many problems, and 2 were chosen by our team, being avoidance of other pirates and stone avoidance
  • Digging → Once arriving on the island, the pirates would then have to dig for the treasure

🔍 What it does

Ahoy Matey's is a game that takes us through the journey of pirates finding a treasure chest filled with gold.

  • This game is divided into mainly 4 sections
  • Fishing → to fish for a treasure map contained in the bottle
  • Map Navigation → to get to the island
  • Stone Avoidance → if a pirate ship hits stones, the ship has the potential to sink
  • Digging → to find the treasure

🔧 How we built it

  • The game is divided into 4 sections. As our team has 4 people, thus we divided it such that each person takes 1 section.
  • A variety of applications were used such as
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Canva
    • Figma

🏃‍♂️ Challenges we ran into

  • Recapping/Relearning JavaScript.
  • Not being familiar with CSS and CSS animations.
  • It was challenging to come up with a good storyline within the short time constraint. Moreover, it was difficult to think of ways to make each of the story components interactive and fun.
  • With every new library used, there is also the challenge of learning how the library works, and how it can be utilized to create new things.

🏅 Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Made a game that works.
  • Completing at least the MVP of what we wanted to achieve.
  • We managed to integrate our components into 1 continuous experience and host it too.

🧠 What we learned

  • Javascript
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • Web animation
  • Teamwork makes the dream work :)
  • This was also our first time working with Create.js and its sub components.

⏭️ What's next for Ahoy Matey

  • As it is quite obvious that some parts of the game are not complete and lack visual factor, we hope that we can refine our current features.
  • Inclusion of more storyline levels and fun minigames.
  • Improvement of graphics, some of which were cut due to the time constraints.
  • We also hope that we can add new features and make our website more interactive!

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