HoosDrawing?

A chrome-extension, drawing game to play with your friends. HoosDrawing lets you take a brain break during the day, interact with friends, and have lots of fun!

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Inspiration

Research shows that students perform better when they are giving a small break between long study sessions. We thought that it was important that while students use their laptops and work on whatever work/projects they have, they should have some sort of notification or pop-up that encourages them to take a break. Thus, we created HoosDrawing, a game launched by a custom Google Chrome extension, where users can play a fun 3-5 minute drawing game with their friends and take a break from their current work schedule.

What it does

In HoosDrawing, there is a promptmaker and various other players. After the promptmaker creates a game, they create a prompt for which all other players will create a drawing for in the game. Once the prompt is created and game code is generated, players can join the game with the game code and use the games drawing board to create their own image response to the prompt. After all players submit their images, they can view the gallery of images while they wait for the promptmaker to choose a winning image. The promptmaker will see all the images anonymously, choose the winning one, and it will be revealed to all players.

How we built it

We built our application using HTML, CSS, and Javascript for the front-end side and SQL databases for the back-end side of the game. We programmed our application on Visual Studio Code, and tested it out ourselves.

Challenges we ran into

Figuring out how to store the images in a database and retrieving them so that other users can see the gallery of images in the game.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Finishing our working game within 24 hours and adding features to our application that allow users to create their own custom drawings with Javascript, and improving the UI with various CSS frameworks.

What we learned

We were able to learn more about frontend applications that we were a bit unfamiliar with, while also experimenting with the use of databases for a game application as well.

What's next for HoosDrawing?

We hope to finish the testing and database for the game, and publish it so all users can implement this chrome extension and have fun playing HoosDrawing!

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