#115 - Idol Avenue

Inspiration

We were inspired by the personal experience of not having enough representation as a child and therefore wanting to empower children and ensure that they have this experience in the future.

What it does

The player can choose a character to walk around as and travel down Idol Avenue, clicking on mystery characters to find out their story and the impact they have made. All of the characters are influential women of today, many being part of racial or other minorities.

How we built it

We began by organizing the women we wanted to include, researching each person, and writing a biography that would be understandable by a child. We then began creating graphics in Pixilart while half of our team began coding the motion for the sprite in Snap. We then added being able to go to multiple areas in the street, as well as other necessities, like a title, help screen, and the influential people and their biography screens. Finally, we combined the graphics with the code.

Challenges we ran into

We struggled with figuring out how to divide the work, since our experience with coding was limited as a group, and varied a lot between each individual.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we were able to feature so many inspirational women in our project to hopefully educate and inspire others. Additionally, we are extremely proud of how all the different elements our team contributed to came together in the end to form our final project. Specifically, creating the code for the walking animation was an accomplishment of ours as beginner coders.

What we learned

Planning is essential to creating a cohesive project efficiently. We created an original plan that wasn't very thought out, and ended up having to nearly entirely scrap it. Although, then we learned from that and planned our second attempt better, leading to a more smooth process as a team.

What's next for Idol Avenue

In the future, we would love to add more influential people for the player to learn about, even potentially adding roads that split off from the main one for specific cultures. For example, there could be a road specifically for Asian, LGBTQ+, or Latina Icons. We would also like to make clearer instructions and cleaner graphics throughout the game.

Built With

• pixilart
• snap