Choose Your Adventure

Inspiration

Wanting to make a choice based story that(unlike many others), actually effects the outcome of a character. It is very much similar to Black Mirror's movie bandersnatch.

What it does

Gives a player choices that guide him/her through a spooky story.

How we built it

We used primarily java, with the GUI built in javafx, a free text to speech engine, and AI generated art for the background image. _ Damon Gonzalez _ primarily worked on the GUI and _ Jessica Nguyen _ worked on the backend(or model).

Challenges we ran into

Making things accessible is a lot harder than it initially sounds. We mostly ran into challenges around that aspect of our project because it's not something that is often thought about when creating an application.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Incorporating a speech engine successfully is something we're very proud. Even though the speaking voice could be much more pleasant I've never successfully incorporated an API like that before.

What we learned

The ability to look past what you could've done better but would have taken too much time. In these hackathons you can't spend too long on one problem because you have a very short time span to develop your application. If something isn't going as planned you need to find a quick fix and move on. Hopefully you'll get back to it, but if not it's ok because other things were accomplished.