Quarantine Simulator

The main room of the house, featuring the hand washing, food, and TV minigames, and interactive stove and refrigerator
The food minigame: get all the food to win Quarantine Coins!
The hand washing minigame: learn the proper steps to hand washing
The Space Invaders TV minigame (made before this hackathon)
The upstairs of the house, featuring the homework game, interactive bed, and closet
The homework game: answer the math problems right to win!
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The bathroom, featuring the hand washing game (again) and interactive toilets and showers
The outside of the house... do you have a mask?

Inspiration

We found inspiration in playing fun video games and wanted to apply it to an educational setting relevant to these times.

What it does

Players explore the world of their own house. They can play minigames to learn the proper hand washing steps, eat food, play videos, or do homework. By playing minigames, players earn Quarantine Coins. Try to get as many Quarantine Coins as possible. (The game never ends. Will this ever end?...)

How we built it

We used the Greenfoot game engine in Java to build the game, using the built-in classes. We also created many of our own graphics.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into challenges on how to use the methods available in the game engine and how to design the code to perform the functions we wanted. The biggest challenge was creating a coin system that kept track of the Quarantine Coins throughout the game.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of the end result. We're proud of the Quarantine Coin system, the ability to switch between scenes in the game, and, of course, the individual minigames themselves.

What we learned

We learned how classes communicate with each other and how to use the given functions in the game engine. As a team of siblings, this also strengthened our brotherhood.

What's next for Quarantine Simulator

There is a lot of potential for more minigames and features. We are planning on expanding the minigames, making them polished into games themselves. We also have ideas for a health system and a clock system, where the player needs to go grocery shopping and must complete certain tasks at certain times.

Built With

greenfoot
java

Submitted to

Silicon Valley Hacks

Created by

I worked on the planning of the features of the game. I also worked on the full stack.

Nathan Chan
I worked on the full stack. I had a lot of fun learning how to make this.

Jeffrey Chan
I worked on the TV game. It was difficult for me as it was my first game.

Jason Chan
I helped code the eating game and provide images for it. I also helped code the washing hand game. I worked on the back end mostly and a bit on the front end. I have not used Greenfoot that much beforehand so I learned a lot in doing this.

Jeremy Chan

Updates

Nathan Chan posted an update — Apr 26, 2020 05:59 AM EDT

Note that the Space Invaders minigame was made separately before the hackathon and is not meant to be representative of the entire Quarantine Simulator game. We just thought it would put a game inside a game.

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Nathan Chan started this project — Apr 26, 2020 05:31 AM EDT

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