Mindwars

Introduction

May 2024 #47 Hackahton: Code Wars: The Hackathon Strikes Back

Code Troopers presents "Mindwars", an interactive Star Wars themed trivia quiz style game with a twist.

In a galaxy not so far away, a random group of intrepid heroes have come together to put an end to the Emperor. In order to achieve this, co-operation, planning, division of labour and creative effort are required.

The project was planned and executed according to the Agile principle.

Combined with the calm and composure of a Jedi, and in some cases the tenacity of a restless Sith, we have managed to offer the Emperor a battle in which everyone can participate.

The Code Troopers have laid the groundwork, and now we invite you to join us in the fight against the Emperor.

Link to the Game - MindWars

Responsive Mockup

Gameplay

Characters

You will have a choice of 5 characters to choose to play as. Pick wisely as each character have their own perks while completing the trivia:

• Yoda
  • Force Sense; on activating this perk you will automatically detect the correct answer.
• Luke
  • Force Meditation; on activating this perk you will gain additional time to answer a question giving you the potential to get bonus point.
• Darth Vader
  • Dark Force; on activating this perk you will gain bonus points for answering correctly.
• Princess Leia
  • Force Empathy; on activating this perk you will be able to change the question asked.
• Han Solo
  • Expert Markman; on activating this perk, two incorrect answers will be eliminated.

Stages

Stage 1

• Requires you to play a multiple choice-based trivia game, split into 3 levels of increasing difficulty.
• Jedi Apprentice, Jedi Knight and Jedi master with 5 questions per level, and 30 seconds per question to answer.
• The faster you select the correct answer the greater the points scored will be.
• To also aid you in stage 2; in each difficulty level, if you succeed in answering all 5 questions correctly, you will uncover battle armour able to be used in the final stage.

Stage 2

• Will involve you battling the mystery disturbance detected, following a Rock, Paper, scissor style battle.

Hall of Fame

• To reach the leaderboards you will need to be both swift and precise.
• Each question answered correctly will give you 10pt.
• the quicker you answer them will multiply the points and a difficulty factor of 1, 2 or 3.

Design

Colour Scheme

• The color scheme was chosen to reflect the 'StarWars' theme.

Typography

• The fonts for this project are from google fonts and cdn fonts.

• The Main Font is "Obitron" sans-serif.

• the Text Font is "Star Wars" sans-serif.

Wireframes

• Simple and minimal mockups were created at the start with Balsamiq Wireframes.

Link to Wireframes

Technologies used to develop and deploy this project

• Django/Jinja - main Framework of the project.
• Python - main BackEnd programming language of the project.
• HTML - templates programming language of this project (FrontEnd).
• CSS - styling the project via external CSS file.
• Java Script - dynamic templates programming language of this project (FrontEnd).
• jQuery - API for JavaScript - dynamic templates programming language of this project (FrontEnd).
• Bootstrap v. 5.3 - styling framework used in this project (FrontEnd).
• Heroku - to deploy this project.
• Balsamiq - to create wireframes.
• Git - to make commitments of progress and push the results back to GitHub.
• GitHub - to keep the track of version control.
• Gimp - to remove background from the images.

Credits

• FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY
• Star Wars and all its assets are under copyright by The Lucasfilm Ltd. which is owned by Disney.

Acknowledgements

• Our team worked well together, we all helped each other on different aspects of the project.

• Tomas K. -

• Szymon S.-

• Liam B. -

• Lorenz B. -

• Deepesh P. -

• Viktor R. -

• Amir A. -

• Jamie O. -