OUR INSIPRATIONS
Our main inspirations are: The SCP Foundation, a universe created entirely by people from around the world, and Pokémon GO, for the real-time map interactions and having people move around to discover new markers.
WHAT IS OUR APP?
Our app, StoryMapper, lets people explore the world, place markers and notes for other people to discover. These notes can be anything, ranging from a daily occurrence at that spot to an entire fictional story based on the location.
DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
We used Unity Game Engine to build the app, along with MapBox for the map.
PROBLEMS WE FACED
Throughout the development of our project, we ran into several issues: The map would lag when attempting to pan, being unable to test the Geolocation code on a laptop, converting latitude and longitude values to screen coordinates, etc. We even switched to Python in between but decided to return to Unity and C#.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS WE'RE PROUD OF
This entire project has been something we're proud of. We've never worked on maps in unity, and consequently, we faced a lot of bugs and roadblocks. Overcoming these challenges and bypassing them by coming up with alternative methods and designs were things that we were truly proud of.
WHAT WE LEARNT
Integrating unity maps was the main thing we learnt about. We thought of implementing it for a different project, but decided against it due to the lack of documentation for it. But this time we pushed through and managed to implement it with several other features. Another skill we developed was saving information onto files and reading/writing data into it.
WHAT'S NEXT?
Unfortunately, we didn't have time to implement the networking/connecting several devices over the network. In the future, we can definitely implement this and we hope to publish a more polished and refined version of StoryMapper.
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