Recycling Vin

Recycling Vin

Inspiration

Recycling Vin is an action-packed mobile game that transforms players into eco-friendly warriors alongside the spirited kid-hero, Vin. Armed with a green thumb and a passion for sustainability, Vin takes on the nefarious 'frackingsteins,' monstrous foes threatening the environment with their pollution.

What it does

Join Vin in a thrilling adventure as you battle these villains, solve eco-friendly puzzles, and make impactful choices to save the planet. With each victory, players learn about the importance of recycling, renewable energy, and conservation, turning Recycling Vin into not just a game, but a fun-filled journey towards a greener, more sustainable future!"

Here's the short video on YouTube of Recycling Vin https://youtu.be/nh3TrjUXa2k

How we built it

Using Flutter and Google Wallet integration. Flutter was the right choice for this project due to its multi-platform nature; Firebase allowed us to stand up a robust backend for the game and the Google Wallet integration brought a much higher level of engagement by letting users collect badges and take them out of the game as collectibles. We developed it for Android (Tablets and Mobile) and will continue working to bring it to IOS and Web - thanks to Flutter this will be possible as we'll be leveraging the same codebase minus a few tweaks per platform.

Challenges we ran into

We want to bring a high level of engagement like casual gamers expect out there, so incorporating animations without compromising quality, as well as implementing a great design from the get-go was instrumental in its success. Integrating the Google Wallet was seamless, but bringing a more sophisticated approach was a bit challenging so we settled for a simple badge earning workflow based on achieving a goal in the game which would unlock it and preserve it in the user's local preferences and allow them to be added to their Google Wallet.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Building a game within a short period of time and then allow us to get feedback, and even add last minute features.

What we learned

How to integrate the Google Wallet to Flutter - will be thinking of ways on how to apply it to other apps

What's next for Recycling Vin

Currently only supporting Android (Tablets and Phones), next up will be: adding leaderboards, the ability to share the badges obtained and publish them to the leaderboards, support a web version of the game as well as IOS.