NYC_History_Trivia

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Inspiration

In order to bring together the NYC Community, we wanted to develop a game that has a combination of Jepordy and Kahoot mixed into it, with the theme being various topics relevant to NYC residents (NYC Foods, Culture, History, Boroughs, Transportation), essentially, it is a way to test your knowledge on how well you really know NYC.

What it does

The platform we wanted to built it for was for Andorid Users primarily, it will have series of multiple choice questions, with a timer to answer and the quicker your able to answer, the more points you score, just as you would in Kahoot, however, we added a twist, we also integrated various level of difficulty based on the points selected and the topic selected, just as the difficulty of questions increase based on the number of points in Jepordy.

How we built it

We use goDot game engine, using goDot script for various complex UI, funtionalities, animations, transitions and rendering alongside backend api calls to openAI library to generate the questions.

Challenges we ran into

Since goDot in itself was a game engine we heard about for the first time, we had a difficult time learning the fundamentals as game engine is something none of us have used before, therefore, building a simple game with simple UI and transition was very time consuming, the learning curve was quite steep, and the resources for various questions and topics aren't available compared to other game engines such as Unity and Unreal and the documentation changes too frequently so too many of the previous discussions had code that are now deprecated. Having to read through confusing documentation and manual didn't help either.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to complete the UI aspects and generate the test questions for one section, NYC boroughs, we have some degree of flow and animation in regards to the scenes we have built as well