LEVEL UP

Inspiration

Our inspiration was really a love for gaming as well as the desire to help those get into fitness as we ourselves have struggled in the past and would love a tool such as LEVEL UP.

What it does

LEVEL UP essentially combines aspects of gaming such as achievements, into a playable game through leveraging fitness as the resource. By setting personalized goals for your fitness journey, you are able to complete such goals and in turn gain resources to participate in events, collect items, collect companions, collaboration with other users, and over all build an avatar.

How we built it

We built LEVEL UP by utilizing a medieval theme and prioritized designing a program simple enough for players to grasp quickly. We leveraged common UI techniques used by other applications and combined the most commonly recognized symbols and functions. We then adapted the desired functions around the simple UI we had created.

Challenges we ran into

One of our biggest challenge was how to make it unique. During the brainstorming phase, we fleshed out ideas but it kept going in the direction of another popular game. We eventually scraped and kept some ideas that made the game more unique. However, this application was unlike anything else and it was difficult to get inspiration. This meant that we were venturing on an uncharted territory and we decided to try and create a lot of unique elements as well as keeping some familiar elements an app has. We overcame this challenge with lots of time dedicating to communicating ideas and bouncing off one another to eventually arriving at one idea.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We spent long hours designing and creating possible mock-ups for this app and we are very proud of how it turned out. We are happy with the design and functionalities of our app, although we wish we could add more features if given the time.

What we learned

During the development and ideation of LEVELUP! We learned how to effectively use Figma and divide our time effectively, ensuring that there was no creative burnout. We came together and communicated ideas as well as building on previous ideas and cohesively created an application we can be proud of.

What's next for Designathon 2024

We want to create develop this app in the long term as a way to unite more people together. Hopefully this project will be able to be continued by more people. We want to integrate more features, have a real app published on the app store, and change people's lives.