A sci-fi game that feels like a visual novel and reads like a buzzfeed quiz all at once. The future of humanity is now in your hands.
The game keeps track of your choices by giving each one a hidden score tied to a future. As you go, it adds up your answers, and at the end, whichever future you leaned toward the most becomes your ending. It’s a simple pattern system we built using Scratch.
What tools did you use to create your project?
How much experience does your group have? Does the project use anything (art, music, starter kits) you didn't create?
Our group consists of 4 people, 3 of whom had their first experience with coding and programming through codeday. One of our members had some light coding experience with some school clubs ( mostly just python basics)
The art is mostly from sci-fi shows we found on pinterest, and some sprites
What challenges did you encounter?
Since our team had no prior experience at all, simply trying to make sense of the blocks that we were adding on scratch was a challenge in itself. But we powered through, stuck with a cool idea we liked, and encountered many many bugs that we did not know how to work through. Luckily, our mentors at Codeday had our back and we slowly started to get a feel for the software we were working with.
One of the most difficult things for us to figure out was how our score keeping system would work in order to lead the player to one of the 4 endings which we had made. It was a lot of "If-Then" blocks, and a lot of creative thinking with how to use the operators. Sometimes even our mentors though the bugs couldn't be fixed. But we had an "aha" moment, and we got it fixed.
Safe to say that if our team gets told "scratch is for kindergardeners" again, we're sure to prove them wrong.