Poképlants | Devpost

the game home :)
battle page
plantdex
plant info
bad plant!
viney plant...
the aloe plant!

Inspiration

After looking at the Hack the 6ix prizes, we were all drawn to the BLAHAJ. On a more serious note, we realized that one thing we all have in common is accidentally killing our house plants. This inspired a sense of environmental awareness and we wanted to create a project that would encourage others to take better care of their plants.

What it does

Poképlants employs a combination of cameras, moisture sensors, and a photoresistor to provide real-time insight into the health of our household plants. Using this information, the web app creates an interactive gaming experience where users can gain insight into their plants while levelling up and battling other players’ plants. Stronger plants have stronger abilities, so our game is meant to encourage environmental awareness while creating an incentive for players to take better care of their plants.

How we built it + Back-end:

The back end was a LOT of python, we took a new challenge on us and decided to try out using socketIO, for a websocket so that we can have multiplayers, this messed us up for hours and hours, until we finally got it working. Aside from this, we have an arduino to read for the moistness of the soil, the brightness of the surroundings, as well as the picture of it, where we leveraged computer vision to realize what the plant is. Finally, using langchain, we developed an agent to handle all of the arduino info to the front end and managing the states, and for storage, we used mongodb to hold all of the data needed. [backend explanation here]

Front-end:

The front-end was developed with React.js, which we used to create a web-based game. We were inspired by the design of old pokémon games, which we thought might evoke nostalgia for many players.

Challenges we ran into

We had a lot of difficulty setting up socketio and connecting the api with it to the front end or the database

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are incredibly proud of integrating our web sockets between frontend and backend and using arduino data from the sensors.

What's next for Poképlants

Since the game was designed with a multiplayer experience in mind, we want to have more social capabilities by creating a friends list and leaderboard
Another area to explore would be a connection to the community; for plants that are seriously injured, we could suggest and contact local botanists for help
Some users might prefer the feeling of a mobile app, so one next step would be to create a mobile solution for our project