Game Blocker

Inspiration

As a student that wants to learn more. The biggest obstacle for me to learn something is the ability to simply turn on any game or any program that easily distracts me, so we created a simple app that blocks chosen .exe files from launching

What it does

The program blocks the selected files from launching using python and its libraries

How we built it

Firstly created a prototype that of a command line driven program, that attempted to block apps, after that made a simple gui that allows us to run the app as much as we want to, then a simple json format file that remembers the saved .exe files and their location

Challenges we ran into

Making the GUI, having the program actually block .exe files. And testing the program from an Linux enviroment even though it's primarily made for Windows

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Successfull run of the app

What we learned

How scripting languages simplify the creation of productivity apps.

What's next for Game Blocker

Adding support for different OS extensions, better UI, Connecting with Graphic driver programs, to take their detected game exe automatically

Built With

• json
• psutil
• python
• tkinter