Data Tycoon

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Inspiration

I've been a data privacy and security advocate for many years now. I'm constantly warning people to be more aware of just how much data they are giving up freely without the knowledge of how that data might be getting used and sold. So I decided to make an ironic game to try and tell the story by letting people play the evil corporation building and enriching data profiles to sell for profit.

What it does

It is a game engine that has a demo game created for data privacy awareness. The game can be completely modified within the engine to be about any theme. It is almost entirely customizable.

How we built it

I built it entirely from bolt.new. No outside services. VERY limited manunally editing when required just to change variables or fixed values etc.

Challenges we ran into

Ran in to about a dozen deep technical challenges along the way. The biggest probably being how to refactor the game for mobile responsiveness. Bolt handled it extremely well and after a dozen or so prompts it was almost there.

The save/load game system was particularly troublesome to implement. Followed closely by the customization functionality.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

1. It's essetnially an entire game engine, designed without any knowledge of how to code.
2. It is mobile friendly
3. There are just so many features and functions of the game that I am proud of. The level of detail I managed to bring and the level of polish I believe I have managed to achieve through relentless Q&A and not settling for something that didn't work exactly how I wanted it to work.

What we learned

I learned having mobile in mind from the start would have solved a lot of complexity and refactoring later on. I learned some aspects add compelxity at a much faster rate and become exponential when adding in additional features. Proper planning for implementaiton is essential.

What's next for Data Tycoon

Create additional prebuilt mods for the game for different themes. Science / Eco conservation / Math / Wizardry / Space Exploration. Open source it Maybe try to monetise it later

Built With

• and
• css
• eslint
• html
• javascript
• localstorage
• lucide
• netlify
• postcss
• react
• tailwind
• typescript
• vite