Inspiration
Worldwide 792 million people suffers from mental illness. Mental health problems can cause people to be alienated from their peers because of perceived unattractive personality traits or behaviors. They can also cause anger, fear, sadness and feelings of helplessness if the person does not know or understand what is happening. So, I created the game Puzzledeck
What it does
Puzzledeck is a picture puzzle sliding Game.
Test your brain skills with slide puzzle games. You can test your skills with the difficult format of puzzle gaming.
The puzzle is fixed in a frame and only one piece can be moved at a time. And when you move a piece, it also changes the position of the others.
One of the hardest parts of solving a sliding puzzle is preventing future moves from ruining previous slides. To prevent this, try to think ahead and consider what will happen in several moves in the future each time you slide a tile.
Features:
Timer: It also has a timer that makes your hype higher to solve the puzzle as quickly as you can. After the timer ends the puzzle closes automatically.
Levels: It has 2 levels,
In 1st level, it contains a 3 X 3 puzzle.
In the 2nd level, it contains a 4 X 3 puzzle.
Background Music: You can listen to music while you play the game.
Leaderboard: When you start the game you can able to see the highest scores of every player.
Scores: After fixing the puzzle your score will be displayed and scores are stored in the Mysql database.
How we built it
I built the game using Python, Pygame and MySQL
Challenges we ran into
I felt challenging while creating the score and connecting leaderboard to MySQL but I have accomplished those successfully. Furthermore, determining which features to include was a difficult task. I had so many various ideas, but I realized I wouldn't be able to apply them all, so I had to pick a few.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I was proud that in just a few hours, I was able to create a code a fully functional game, build a slide deck, and record & edit my pitch video. I was also able to learn a lot from this hackathon, using technologies that I had barely touched previously, which I'm proud that I was able to do!
What we learned
Doing research for this game definitely opened my eyes to how widespread the impact of mental illness is--and how important it is to work towards a solution to the problem. On the more technical side, this was my first real project that I’ve used Pygame. Overall though, since I’m still fairly new to game development, with every project I create, I learn something new.
What's next for Puzzledeck
In the future, I would like to fully implement some of the features that I didn't have time to do today such as user login for the players which has their individual scores and displaying leaderboard in screen and having more levels and pictures which make game more interesting and to improve UI/UX of the game.
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