Sustain-a-Stanley

Inspiration

Our inspirations arose from a deep-found love of sustainability; we love the environment and we know you do too, but you're not doing something about it. We all love our childhood games, so we made a simple, relaxing platformer that encourages players to make more environmentally-friendly decisions. Sustain Stanley™ and start saving the world.

Sustain a Stanley like sustainability - Ha!

What it does

Encourages the user to choose sustainable choices. From avoiding the ‘bad guys’ like the ‘Plastic Baddies’™ and the ‘Planticides’™, the user learns that their enemies are destroying the environment. The sparkly ‘Water Gems’™ are to be collected and players gain 5 points from doing so.

How we built it

The gameplay was built using scratch. The graphics (sprites) and background were built using scratch and Krita.

Challenges we ran into

Spawning the raindrops in different places, and increasing the score as Stanley collects the raindrops.
Finding a platform to build the game on - we attempted to use Unity, however, we have no prior experience so we found it to be too complicated (it uses C#), so we decided to use Scratch.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating different stages/levels, and each level has different enemies.
Decreasing the score when running into an enemy or falling off the stage.

What we learned

Unity is a challenge for next time
How to create a game that Is both engaging and educational

What's next for Sustain-a-Stanley

Have him gain power-ups and as he progresses he will answer questions and "grow" with sustainable knowledge
Improve the platformer physics so that the player (Stanley) is able to speed up when moving
Introduce challenges for the user to choose between and whether they want to make sustainable/not sustainable choices - they should :D

Built With

goodnotes
google-docs
krita
scratch

Submitted to

Royal Hackaway v6
- Winner Best Domain Name from Domain.com

Created by

I worked on generating the ideas for a game that encouraged sustainability and how Sustain-a-Stanley would work. With limited experience using Unity, we learnt a lot from trying to use it and could probably try it next time but Scratch was our next best bet. Overall, I worked on project management.

Zaira Ahmed
I helped with the planning and design element of the setting, I also helped come up with the enemy characters (plastic bag)

asiyah usman
I worked on creating the design of the game such as drawing (in goodnotes) and adding rain drops to the game to "water" the plant and help it grow. I also came up with the score system to make the user want to do better the next time they play the game.

Kasthury Aruleesan
I worked on the character, background and level design as well as the platformer physics and majority of the coding for this project :)
(Noob gameplay by yours truly)

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Maira Dawood