Fish Finder

The Fish bandit has hit local ATMs, taping fish onto ATMs and making them non-assessable (and smelly!) It's up to you to catch the dastardly devil by following the trail of fish they've left behind.

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Inspiration

The original cat trap game as well as Fury Of Dracula. And of course, our love of coding! :)

What it does

A game using a set of nodes in a set of major cities in the UK. The goal is to catch the fish bandit, who will be located at one of the nodes. You can tell if you are getting closer to the bandit if the number of ATMs with fishes in a particular node gets higher.

How we built it

Using the AnyChart API to create map and also we used major cities within the dataset provided to place the nodes. We wrote it using Javascript and HTML.

Challenges we ran into

Initially we had a more ambitious idea using all of the data in the dataset with a working MongoDB and RESTful API to link it to our front-end, however this quickly fell apart... However, we found a lovely API to use instead!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Staying up all night....

What we learned

Try not to use a database system that you've never used before when the hackathon is 24hours.

What's next for Fish Finder

Improve the UI, add a zoom feature and add more nodes. Make a more complicated algorithm for how the bandit behaves, and also implement a money feature where you can earn money by cleaning ATMs and spend money travelling from node to node.

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