GAIA

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  GAIA

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Inspiration

For this game I was inspired by the actions we take in daily life , other games and a 90’s cartoon. I wanted to think about the actions we take in daily life, that we may or may not believe are sustainable and to the possible actions that we may not be aware of we could take and connect it to the effect on different lands in the world it to the effects with may not see where we live.

What it does

It is a 2D tile game, the tiles drop down, animating different daily actions of things we could do to reduce our footprint i.e One tile is about reducing plastic bottles usage; the possible solutions are: we could use our own refillable bottle instead of buying bottled water, bringing your own mug of coffee or take your own to go cup to get takeout coffee, companies could provide a water cooler for their employees so they don't have to purchase bottled water. There are currently 16 different actions with some having more than one animated possible solution. On the game over screen you get a summary of all the actions you monitored, if you miss any tiles they stack up and cause weather events with one location first and then a wave of events on other locations on the map. At the end you told about your level, the number of climate events that took place and the number of actions you monitored. Depending on your actions you will earn GAIA spirit point that can be saved to Google Wallet: The Wallet will keep track of your points earned and update your wallet pass to provide you with your current GAIA Spirit Status :Earth, Sun-fire power, Wind, Water, Heart. When you reach a certain amount of points You will reach GAIA Status. Meaning your daily actions are incongruence with supporting the earth's environment to the best of your ability. The game is aimed at helping us learn more about possible alternatives to our actions, by focusing on different areas for change which may affect the climate and other global problems. It's a browser game, the web screen must be set to maximum to resize after.

How we built it

It was built using Flutter and Flame with the Google Wallet api to keep track of GAIA spirit points you earn in the game.

Challenges we ran into

I don’t code using Flutter/Dart very often, so I had to brush up on my skills and learn more about Flame. Setting up the Google Wallet api was quite a difficult task, it’s not very beginner friendly and the dashboard wouldn’t allow me to set up test accounts.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The game concept and design, doing the animations for the tiles, and setting up the Google Wallet api, managing to get a pass in order to connect the game to the actions we take in our daily lives.

What we learned

I learned about animation, more about Flame and Flutter. Improved my knowledge of current sustainable ideas.

What's next for GAIA Spirit

This could be useful for education as you don’t know what you don’t know and a lot of the possible solutions are things that perhaps people haven't thought about. The GAIA Wallet pass could connect people to shops/companies so everyone is involved. I.e if you bring your own cup or don't use plastic bags then the company swipes your pass and you can earn more points. If the company wanted to further reward the person they could give them the saving they made as credit to use in store.

Learn more here: https://multiuser-bc138.web.app/learn

Built With

• flame
• flutter
• google
• wallet