BoogieBoo

Inspiration

We brainstormed about disco-related themes and were inspired by disco fashion

What it does

It allows you to swap the clothes on the disco ghost with arrow buttons

How we built it

Using Renpy, a python-based visual novel creator

Challenges we ran into

As first-time hackers, we all had pretty much no idea how to exactly implement our ideas using code, so researching and reading up on a suitable libraries/engines to implement our project was quite time-consuming. Patrick for example spent hours reading thorugh pygame tutorials before realizing that the rather complex library is better suited for action games requiring constant updates and frame changes, before switching to renpy, a visual novel game engine which was more suited for the static nature of the project. Also, debugging the code to ensure a relatively smooth performance was very tedious as well.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We finished the project (sorta)

What we learned

Hackathons, and coding projects in general are quite work-intensive and require skills that are not taught in lower-level CS classes at NJIT. We also learned about playing audio files using python, developing games using Renpy and converting between different picture files.

What's next for BoogieBoo

We wanted actually to make the program play music and implement a simple dance animation for the ghost, but sadly ran out of time.

Built With

• python
• renpy