hey, punkin!

Display little pumpkin doodles with friends, no strings attached

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Inspiration

  • A big part of our inspiration comes from the theme, Harvest! We also drew inspiration from the general idea of social media- being able to connect with others. However, with hey, punkin! we hoped to create a less stressful form of social media, with no room for discourse and no need to be performative. The idea is just to display little doodles with friends, no strings attached.
  • The name “punkin” came from a nickname Khalilah’s mom and granny call them sometimes.

What it does

Our website allows users to “carve” any design they want onto a pumpkin, and then upload the pumpkin into a gallery that can be shared with friends, creating a “pumpkin patch” of cool designs for everyone to see.

How we built it

  • HTML, CSS, and createjs for the pumpkin carving part
  • Wix Velo for the website, sign ups, and databases
  • Anna did all of the art
  • Khalilah did most of the website and game

Challenges we ran into

-Khalilah had to remake the drawing game 3 times because of slow performance -We don’t have much experience making names in text-based code, and using javascript was difficult because we don’t have much experience in that either. We ran into many errors along the way, but adjusted our plan and kept going. -Another issue we had is that Anna had very little experience drawing realistically, since she usually has a more stylized art style. However, this was a fun challenge and we are proud that the art is our own.
-Another issue we ran into was time management. We weren’t able to start until very late (12+ hours lost) because of extracurriculars, so we had to carefully use our time in order to get everything done. --Unfortunately, this meant that a lot of extra features we wanted had to be cut so we could get our “must haves” made.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • We made the “game” in text based code, which was the main goal we had after our first hackathon
  • Creating all original art

  • Getting better at using Github

    What we learned

  • Canvas element in html

  • Javascript for game development

  • z-index for layering elements

  • Using Github for version control

  • Wix Velo

What's next for “hey, punkin!”

  • We hope to share this with friends
  • We want to add some features that we didn’t have time to add before such as: -- Stamps (for carving) -- Different types of pumpkins -- A gallery of user-submitted pumpkins -- A better UI for the game with buttons

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