MutineerMap

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  Our friendly UI.

Inspiration

• Our inspiration for MutineerMap was a combination of the well-known simulator website called NukeMap and the theme of Knight Hacks VII. We took the idea of assessing destruction due to a disaster that the user chooses and adapted it to picking and deploying a pirate crew.

What it does

• This application allows the user to select a pirate fleet and area of impact to see the potential impacts of their chosen pirate crew. Our best piratologists worked day and night to create a Proprietary Pirate Plundering Potency Procedure (PPPPP) to get real-time estimates on total value of stolen goods, damaged property, and fell defenders as a pirate's fleet rolls over their surrounding territory.

How we built it

• We used the Pygame library for Python, along with Plotly/Pandas for data visualization.

Challenges we ran into

• We had a number of problems with Git throughout the weekend, including failed merges, rebases, and overlooked additions getting lost in transfer between local and remote branches. Additionally, we essentially restarted the GUI halfway through the weekend once we (two people who no prior experience in web development) discovered that our Flask implementation would not achieve the desired functionality in time, at which point we switched to Pygame for a local version.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• After the amount of trouble we had implementing the feature to place pirates on a map and have the circle of destruction expand outwards, we are proud to at last have this feature working.

What we learned

• We learned about the process of translating a local program to work in a web format, as well as a great deal of information about pirate history that was used in the PPPPP.

What's next for MutineerMap

• The next steps for Mutineer Map would be to continue developing the precision of our projected damages as the pirate expands over the map, before pitching the application to a range of universities and municipal governments as a public safety tool, similar to the meteorology software used to project hurricane damages but for imminent pirate sieges, and then ultimately going public and getting bought by Google.

Built With

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• plotly
• pygame
• python