Inspiration
It is difficult to comprehend incredibly small probabilities like winning the lottery. Our goal is to make abstract probabilities more understandable with concrete and tangible instances of chance, like flipping multiple heads in a row. This educational tool will help people understand probabilities better. This allows gamblers to recognize the low probabilities of winning, people with phobias to recognize the low probabilities of their fears, or patients to recognize the success/fail probabilities of surgeries.
What it does
Our project takes in a desired probability, and represents it in a way that is simple for people to comprehend. Our program uses logarithms to compute an accurate and understandable representation of the given probability in either dice or coins.
How we built it
Our project was built from scratch in Unity.
Challenges
In an attempt to be as accessible as possible to all people and devices, we attempted to scale our project to fit whatever resolution a user’s device was in. This caused a number of problems starting out, as we were unable to find a simple way to have our elements display properly throughout.
Accomplishments
This was the first time working on a standalone project for both developers. We published our work to itch.io, allowing the public access to our work.
What we learned
We gained experience collaborating using github and unity. We also learned how to pitch a project to others.
What’s next
We’d like to expand the scope of our project to include more variety in how chance is represented. Our mathematical presentation has a margin of error we could reduce with our mathematical formulas of probability like combinations and permutations. We’d also like to tackle other aspects of gambling addiction, such as sunken cost fallacy.
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