Inspiration
Blockchain is growing as a technology. It is being rapidly adopted in many sectors, but people still don't understand it well. We got the idea for PoPiat based on how common misconceptions about blockchain are, and we wanted to correct some of those assumptions.
The major problem is that people are finding it difficult to understand what blockchain actually. This makes forming an informed opinion difficult. If people were to better understand these technologies they would be more likely to support their research and development.
What it does
It is a blockchain virtual simulator that allows you to interact with the components of the chain.
How we built it
We used Unity to build the simulator and tried to make it as sandbox-y as we could
Challenges we ran into
We had trouble navigating through the Unity as a lot of its docs are harder to understand for beginners and almost every video resource available dates back at least a few years. Also managing time zones was a huge issue but we tried out best. It is one of our member's first hackathon, and two of our members had never used Unity prior to this weekend.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We've created a solid foundation to continue improving our app, and we're proud of the educational materials we've created to go alongside it, with more complete and guided tutorials planned for implementation as we continue working on the project in the future.
What we learned
We learned a lot about how to use Unity, and we learned significantly more about blockchain ourselves in the pursuit of creating high-quality and simple educational material. We've also better learned how to work as a team and coordinate across such a complex platform on a team with people in multiple different countries.
What's next for PoPiat
We plan to continue working on PoPiat, finishing up the prototype and turning it into a guided tutorial which later ends by handing the user with the simulator to have fun with.
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