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Inspiration

The transition of the education process between stages of life.

What it does

This is a interactive text game that has 3 different minigames that reflect the kind of educational content that people of different age ranges experience. The first game is a match the shape game that a toddler may go through. The second game is a trivia section for early childhood to pre-teen ages using the different subjects within a typical school curriculum as a guideline. The third game is a decision simulator reflecting some basic decisions/consequences that a teenager may experience that shows progression in their personal assets and traits

How we built it

Using Java within the Eclipse IDE we created a console based text experience that takes in user input from the console and outputs to the console for the user to read.

Challenges we ran into

It was very difficult to try and implement the broad ideas we had into specific tasks and modules that we could all individually work on. Because of this, we initially had to scrap our initial more ambitious idea of a graphic based 2D scroller game in favor of a text-based game to ensure that we would be able to make significant progress.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

One of the biggest worries we had was that we wouldn't have a product that was finished enough to display the concepts/ideas that we wanted to express through our game, and creating a concept that works is something we are proud of. As much as we want to be ambitious, creating an interactive game through the console which was able to represent the concepts we wanted to share was something we are quite proud of

What we learned

We learned how to work together, and that there are a lot of smaller details that need to be conceptualized for the whole team to work together effectively. Larger concepts need to be broken down into smaller, easy to define goals so that everyone has an accurate idea of what to do and how they should do it.