Giddy Up, Glitch

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  Main menu

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  How the room initially looks for Chip!

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  This is the menu for the shop (cc are Chip Coins)

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  Chip with a cowboy hat and some posters :)

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  Here is the savings account, where you can deposit money for a higher interest

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  Finally, the stock market, where Chip can buy and sell stocks

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  Be careful - don't let your stats get too low!

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  All concept art made for the game!

Inspiration

Our initial inspiration came from a mobile game named Pou and Tomadachi Island which consisted of taking care of a digital creature. We thought it would be interesting to create an educational/financial version of this concept.

What it does

Our app is an interactive game designed to teach children the importance of saving money, without forgetting bout making it fun to play.

How we built it

The project was built with PyGame as a frontend and Python as a backend with .csv files to maintain game data. PyGame displayed the game for users and allowed them to select different UI options, which updated data across the project accordingly.

Challenges we ran into

Reading and writing data to and from files which contained save information about the current state of the game which had to be used around different parts of the project. Creating user interface elements was very challenging using the basic syntax of PyGame.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to generate our own micro stock exchange so that our users could get a taste into investing. We were also able to load save data from a local .csv file using panda dataframes so that the users can carry on playing from where they left off even after they close the application. All art used in our project was our own and created during the hackathon.

What we learned

How to collaborate with other programmers while simultaneously working on a project. (In addition, Adrian learnt how to code in Python.)

Built With

• matplotlib
• pandas
• pygame
• python