Study Gacha

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Inspiration

I have been playing alot of virtual cottage and hades 2 recently, and I thought it would be interesting to combine Hades 2's keepsake system with a study timer to help motivate me and other people into studying. Even though the study timers(eg: virtual cottage) I use right now are useful, I thought I can augment it by combining it with a lootbox system, the ultimate motivator. oh yea also + brainrot cuz i thought it would be funny and match the theme

What it does

Basically, this is a simple study timer, except you get coins when you study passively, in which you can use the coins to open lootboxes, which can give you either a brainrot keepsake or a consumable of different rarities. The keepsakes acts similar to hades 2, it augments your study sessions in different ways like one of them would give you a consumable after a certain number of hours of studying.

How we built it

Since I didn't really know html and this is more like a game than a simple webpage I ended up making it using python using pygames. I first built a simple clock, than designed/brainstormed of different keepsakes and consumables I can use with some simple balancing as long as lootbox odds. Then I designed the UI for the hub section and the loobox system. After that inventory and some quality of life features like tracking hours. Also did some pixel art of brainrot creatures because I thought it would be pretty cute.

Challenges we ran into

It took a bit for me to learn how to use customtkinter as I have not used it before to design UI, so it took a little bit of adjusting to figure it out.
PIL resolution also took me a while to figure out because i want to perserve the pixel art style and the computer keep trying to smooth it out
Surprisngly it took a long time for me to draw tung tung tung sahar lowkey his proportions are really weird and hard to get the spirit of the image out
Taking a break/going to sleep because there was alot of work