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Toucan Gacha Game Simulator
A project to demonstrate the absurdity of various "gacha" games and how actually absurd they are to try and fight gambling addiction.
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Link to GitHub repo: https://github.com/weewoo14/HawkHacks
Inspiration:
Our inspiration for this gacha game was initially due to the toucan being one of our group member’s favourite animals. For the game aspect of this project, we were inspired by the stereotypical traits of the generic pay-to-win idle gacha game.
What It Does:
Toucan Gacha Simulator aims to combat boredom and gambling addictions by emphasizing the absurdity within these games.. The game imitates "gacha" games, mainly focusing on a theme of toucans.
How We Built It:
This project was built using the PyGame module due to our group having a proficient understanding with this Python Module. We sectioned it off into three sections: the main combat section, the actual gambling section, and the team-building section. These are all very apparent features in crappy copy-and-paste gacha games that we put inside to emphasize the different features within these types of games.
Challenges We Ran Into:
The image-loading feature of PyGame was actually quite bad, as if you set a variable to an image, and set another variable to the same image, it would return False to checking if they are the same. This was extremely rough to find out as we have already coded a lot of the game using this system, so we had to quickly rewrite all of images, by each giving them an ID and progressing from there. Another challenge we ran into was the actual motivation behind this. After we ran into the bug where the images failed to compare correctly, we were all demotivated to not continue. However, we managed to continue prevail and finish it eventually.
Accomplishments That We're Proud Of:
We are proud of the creative designs and graphics in our game, as well as the overall final product and its functionality.
What We Learned?
We learned that time-management, organization, teamwork, and collaboration are all extremely important in these types of events. I believe that we could've worked a bit better together and resolve some common bugs and issues we encountered throughout the project.
What's Next?
Next steps for Toucan Gacha Simulator are improving the UI and adding more fun and creative features. We also hope to fix the duplicate bug that we were not able to fix within the time.