Nerd Herd Game

Inspiration

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic many children have been having a harder time learning, we felt like we could use our knowledge of programming to make a fun game in order to help children learn more effectively and enjoyably on their own. Based of a game called cariboo.

What it does

Our app is an educational game designed to help grade school children learn different topics such as reading, writing, math and science according to the Alberta curriculum. The game consists of 12 doors, a stack of cards, a place holder for stars and a treasure chest. The program has randomly positioned 6 stars behind the 12 doors. Students will be required to pick up a card and answer the multiple choice question shown relating to a specific subject. Once they get a question correct they can choose a door to open. In order to win the game and obtain points the student needs to obtain 3 or 6 stars depending on the difficulty chosen. The student can use these points to buy new skin packs.

How we built it

We mainly used android studio and Java to write the code
Used Figma and Sketch for graphic design
We worked as a team to implement the functionality of the program
Split up the work and managed our time to complete the app in 24 hours

Challenges we ran into

setting up the data base as well as determining how to store and access questions
coordinating the different parts of the project
hard to find a quit place to work

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Created a functioning educational app in 24hours
Implementing a working database to store questions and answers

What we learned

How to use android studio to make an app
How to work well in a team to complete a project
Software development skills
Time management and planning

What's next for Nerd Herd Game

Add more questions and grades (right now we only have roughly grade 1 level)
Advance to a higher grade level once you reach a certain amount of points
Different types of questions such as numerical response, drag and drop etc.
coin rewards for winning rounds that can be spent in the store for new door and chest skins, as well as backgrounds.
User profiles
Implement sounds and background music

IMPORTANT: all code for the project is located in the Master Branch, there was some issues with merging to the main branch

Built With

Submitted to

HackED 2022

Created by

I primarily worked on back-end design of the game along with the other 2 members of the back-end team. This was my first major project in Android Studio so learning a new framework was very difficult

Jadon Latta
I worked in tandem to design the backend functionality of the program. This was the first time I designed a major project in Android Studio so it was interesting to learn a new tool.

Sarah Hildt
I worked in tandem to design the backend functionality of the program. I also took part in the planning and design of the app. This was my first time creating an app using Android Studio so I learned a lot from this experience.

Dennea MacCallum
I worked on researching our demographic and forming questions related to their syllabus and what they learn in school.

Ameer H
I designed the user interface prototype on Figma/Sketch and also created some graphic art for some elements. It was my first time designing the entire app in less than a day, and coming up with how every element would look on the app

Hashim Khawaja