DREAM IN SHEEP

Inspiration

As college students, a majority of us do not get much sleep! Even worse, we think nothing of this. When in actuality, sleep-depravation can lead to major health problems. Our team wanted to build something that could encourage others (including ourselves) to sleep more at night, using a simple but addicting game with a rewards system.

What it does

The game prompts the player with the question: "How many hours of sleep did you get last night?" The player will be encouraged to sleep more based on his or her answer to the prompt. Our plan for this game: We wanted to have the player receive a number of 'sheeps' for the amount of hours slept, which then can be used to customize various aspects of the game, introduce new gameplay, etc. The objective of the game is to avoid the falling sheep, while moving your character from side-to-side.

How we built it

First, we planned out what we wanted to build yesterday (during lunch). After several different ideas, we landed on the a health problem of lack of sleep. So on the day of the Hackathon, we started 'hacking' by drawing out the different necessary sprites (a.k.a., the sheep, the player character), then we thought about what kind of files we would need in our code. With our limited knowledge in using JavaFX, we tried with trial-and-error to finish building as much of the game as we could.

Challenges we ran into

limited knowledge of JavaFX
generating "gameplay"
mobility of sprites
menu screen
css
using github/bitbucket (commit,push,pull,merge was new to us since we were using 3 laptops, pulling/pushing code as a team) // we are all newbies

Accomplishments that we're proud of

how far we got!!
the sprites!!
THE SHEEEEEP
how we were able to learn some javafx/css just by doing this project

What we learned

how to commit/push/pull/merge onto master branch using git and our program as a team
how to create a menu screen
how to create a 'next' button
labels
how javaFX works (with screens/stages)
how to import original artwork into an (actual) game!!!!!

What's next for DREAM IN SHEEP

FINISH THE GAME!!!!!!

implement new gameplay
include rewards for customization
have 'fighting' scenes (with the sheep and miscellaneous falling items, such as pillows)
make this game into an app for iOS/Android
upgrade aesthetic of UI (we ran out of time)
continuing to learn together whilst building this game!