The Greater Than Gators

BOSS
GATOR MC

Team-leader contact: Discord-- shand#8903

Inspiration

Members of the team understand the necessity of understanding basic math skills from a young age. We wanted to design a program that hones in young students' math skills while providing an entertaining experience!

What it does

Our platformer is a level where the user attempts to encounter the enemy, or boss, where they will be presented a math problem. The player then has to answer the math problem to "defeat" the boss.

How we built it

Our platformer uses the Python module PyGame to provide a GUI for the user. Players can use WASD buttons to move and must collide with the boss to prompt the math question or boss encounter.

Challenges we ran into

Not everybody on the team was familiar with Python. We had issues learning PyGame and implementing buttons and popups on the screen. The development process got very complicated when we wanted to ask the user to enter the answer to the math problem. Unfortunately, in the current Greater than Gators build, we cannot handle user input. We will attempt to correct this after the hackathon is complete.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We created a functional and aesthetically pleasing GUI and first level. We have good movement and collision. We all put in many hours on backend and front end design and because of this our team bonded and learned how to better cooperate with each other.

What we learned

Basics of video game development, Python development, group collaboration.

What's next for The Greater Than Gators

We hope to have our game handle user-input in a later build. We will also work on the collision to make the game feel truer to its looks.

Built With

Submitted to

Swamphacks IX

Created by

I worked on back end co-created the math problem generator class. I also added image-handling features in the front end classes.

Shane Downs
CS Student at University of Florida from Detroit, Michigan
I worked in the front end of the video game by obtaining sprites images and background images, so that my teammates can get started on building the game and fix coding bugs. My hackathon email is daniellealvarez@ufl.edu

Danielle Alvarez
Im trying to get into Hackathons, and learn new technologies all the time!
I worked on the Frontend of the game. I made the player class, boss class, and the world class. My hackathon email is gabrielamuriel@ufl.edu.

Gaby Muriel
I worked on the backend and button class that shows the math problem. As a part of the backend, I made a random problem generator with Shane. My hackathon email is a.haque@ufl.edu, which is different from the one I used in devpost.

Arisha Haque
University of Florida student
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