PennyPie

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Inspiration

We were inspired by our love for Sanrio and our passion for programming and trying innovative new solutions.

What it does

We've crafted a web novel game that combines storytelling with financial education. Players navigate financial challenges, learn, and level up. The game/web-novel has interactive choices, mini-games, budgeting tips, and user incentives. It's mobile-friendly with a clear monetization plan for Sanrio character enthusiasts.

How we built it

We explored the usage of renpy in order to create an interactive web-novel, as well as the use of javascript and html to create a website that showcases it. We are hosting it via itch.io.

Challenges we ran into

A challenge we ran into was the division of tasks due to the inexperience of 3/4th of our group. We each learned on the spot and had to explore an assortment of resources such as youtube videos, and a multitude of informative websites.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of what the web-novel looks like at the end of the 24 hours, seeing as most of us were completely new to renpy as well as the manipulation of images/GUIs to fit pixel-wise/background/aesthetics. Although we did not have any experience; we were able to incorporate our love for interactive, player-friendly, engaging web-novels and the challenge proposed by CapitalOne together.

What we learned

3/4th of our team had never attended a hackathon, much less used renpy; which is a free software game engine which facilitates the creation of visual novels. We learned of itch.io, where we can host our web-novel/game.