Happy Taxing!

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  Architecture

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  Planning out user interface

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  Architecture

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  Stretch goals and assets to be made

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  Architecture

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  Planning out user interface

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  Mockup for a mini game

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  Mockup for the home page

Inspiration

Finances are often the most challenging part of being an adult. It is something that can make or break your future, like a good credit score can give you a lower interest on a car and how one should maintain it. However, nobody really teaches finance so we wanted to make a fun immersive game to get children interested in finance and become financially literal.

What it does

Our project is a simulation game. The player has a job, has to pay taxes, raise their credit score, save money for college, and gain experience for better opportunities. For this hackathon, we focused on how to your decisions at businesses and banks can impact your finances. We created banks, stores, and the IRS. For banks, we focused on credit and debit as they can explain loans and savings pretty well.

How we built it

For the first draft of this game, we had tried to use JavaScript's PIXI Library but due to difficulties we had switched it to Unity 2D with C# .Net using GitHub.

Challenges we ran into

Initially, we tried to use JavaScript's Pixi Library to make the game on web browser but there was difficulty uploading textures. So, after a few failed attempts, we tried to build this game again with Unity using GitHub for version control. Since, it was our first time using Git simultaneously, we ran into a lot of merge issues which made us make a backup repository. Luckily, most of our merges were solved out and we worked pretty fast to get our barebones done.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This was our first Hackathon where we persevered till the end to submit our product. In addition, it taught us how to make Unity projects via GitHub and solve merge conflicts in it. It was a fun project to work on as we learned how to code with good coding principles to ensure modularity.

What we learned

We learned to communicate when and where we are making changes to prevent merge conflicts.

What's next for Happy Taxing!

We're planning to add some minigames for sales and banks to make learning more enjoyable. Currently the game is an idea of how it should work but we want to focus on the different types of banks, the APRs they offer, stock market for anyone to invest in, and maybe even link it to up to useful finance resources like books, websites or videos.

Built With

• c#
• github
• unity