MEENT

Splash Screen
User picks which category to play
User introduces themselves to their team
Team works together (voice chat) to solve trivia
Team views results and "compliment" each other
View profiles and add friends

Inspiration

The inspiration for our app was born from a challenge that many college students are facing right now: making friends during COVID-19. We wanted to create an environment where socializing is easy and natural.

What it does

Our app matches up players of similar interests into teams to solve 10 trivia questions created by the game masters (our company). The game requires microphones and encourages collaboration and socializing through matchmaking and balancing algorithms. When the game is over, players receive compliments from each other through our user interface and optionally "add" each other to their friends list.

How we built it

Our team used Figma for prototyping and Concepts App on iOS for illustrating. If we were to implement this project, we would use C# and Unity Engine to easily deploy the game for both iOS and Android.

Challenges we ran into

One of our biggest challenges was learning the Figma software. Our team has a very diverse set of interests and skill sets (IMD, CSS, etc. majors). Figma was a new software for the majority of us and we had to learn quickly in order to complete the project on time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

An accomplishment that we are proud of is how well our team worked together and how productive our workflow was. We followed an iterative development cycle where we constantly built upon and added to our original idea. At the end of the project, we had gone through easily 5 iterations of our product.

What we learned

Although learning the Figma software was definitely impactful for our team, the biggest learning experience came from working in a team on a single project. We discovered first-hand that collaboration elevates the quality of your work not just as a whole, but individually as well.

What's next for MEENT

The next steps for MEENT would be to develop a back-end server to handle multiple connections and games. Then, we would build a mobile application for the App Store and Google Play Store so that users could download and play. Finally, we would work on marketing and advertising our game so that more users can join.