Choremons

Inspiration

We were inspired on how hard it is to get children to do their chores. Most kids nowadays would rather sit on their IPad for 8 hours a day, than get out and do meaningful work in their lives. That's when the idea came to us - What if kids could do both?

Introducing, Choremon, a mobile app which is designed to gamify the mundane act of performing chores.

What it does

With Choremon, you start with a level 1 creature and by performing household chores through the verification of your parents, you can gain points and gradually level up your Choremon!

Furthermore, kids can use their points and their leveled up creatures to play other children in the community.

How we built it

We built Choremon using React Native for the frontend, and FastAPI for the backend.

Challenges we ran into

A big challenge the ran into was maintaining context with both mobile apps using web sockets. We also had to maintain the game state on the backend.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of being able to accomplish a turn based pokemon inspired game within 24 hours. It was a monumental task but we were able to accomplish it within the limited time we had despite how new mobile games on react native were to us.

What we learned

We learned that it is possible to create a game in React Native using no game loop. We also learned about scope and how to make sure we don't overwhelm ourselves during hackathons.

What's next for Choremons

Built With

• expo.io
• fastapi
• mongodb
• react-native