Boolean Bandicoots

Bandy the Bandicoot

Inspiration

We wanted to find a way to combine our team name, boolean bandicoots, and the theme of the hackathon in a way that would help raise awareness to this endangered species. The result: a game within a zoom call that allows you to help a bandicoot named Bandy on their search for the golden ladybug.

What it does

Plays a minigame complete with a start, end, and store screen.

How we built it

We created this project using Java and the extension java.swing. In order to create the graphics, images were found through google and edited to be transparent and scaled to fit the screen. The start and end screens were designed through Figma.

Challenges we ran into

We worked across timezones (from EST to IST). At the start of the project, we were not familiar with using java.awt or java.swing, nor did we have any idea how to create a video game. During the creation of the project, we had to find a way to create user movement, have bugs and rocks continuously fall from the screen, and had to learn how to use arraylists to accomplish this goal. One of our team members had to go to work because a coworker had a medical emergency. We managed, through it all, to create a finished product from scratch, though!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We made an entire game from scratch using only java extensions for the first time! We are proud of our product!

What we learned

How to create a user interface with java.

Built With

Submitted to

Hack Solstice
- Winner Popular Choice

Created by

I had helped with the UI/UX design. I had not worked much with Java earlier. This was a fun learning experience.

Rakshaa Viswanathan
Full Stack Developer | ML and IoT enthusiast | Competitive Programmer | Hackathon Mentor
I focused on coding the classes for the various objects used in the game-- the rocks, bandicoot, ladybugs and buttons. I also created our collision detection algorithm and found and formatted the images used for the icons in the game. I had never used java.swing to create a graphical game from scratch before.

Lisa Reichelson
I worked on building part of the JFrame framework, as well as part of the screens, the Panel, and creating the framework for the background music. I never had used java.awt, javax.swing, java.io, or javax.sound prior to this, nor had our other team members. It was fun learning how to use it and working with a team

Kyle Berdy