Rising Water Level Game

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  Start Screen

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  Middle of Round

Inspiration

This project was inspired by Jeopardy and other trivia games, which teach the audience in a fun, condensed way. In this case, we built it with the theme of global warming and rising water levels. Additionally, we decided to add more variation by randomly asking questions through popping up checkpoint bubbles.

What it does

This is a trivia game that asks the player global warming-themed questions. To complement this theme, we made continents that shrink over time (representing rising water levels) and question bubbles that can appear anywhere on the screen.

How we built it

We divided this project into multiple steps. First, we made a simple animation of the continents shrinking, using a sprite costume and modifying the size of the sprite. Next, we made bubbles that would appear randomly and trigger questions. After that, we researched the effects and solutions to global warming and compiled our findings into a list of questions and answers that we could ask the player. Finally, we added instructions and other quality of life changes.

Challenges we ran into

One challenge we ran into was that the continents would permanently stop shrinking after triggering a question. We found out that it was due to a section of code that stopped the entire questioning script, so we removed it and refactored the surrounding code to not use loops (the reason we stopped the script in the first place).

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud that we were able to make a working game in a busy week.

What we learned

We learned that it's possible to make a functioning project despite each team member having conflicting schedules. This is because we managed to get this done while mainly working asynchronously, where we created new features, modified each other's code, and learn from these revisions.

What's next for Rising Water Level Game

We could add more questions to the list in order to teach the player more about global warming.

Built With

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