Panda

The Project

The purpose of my project is to make everyone more aware of the safety of endangered species. My solution is to create a game that should make my player learn about endangered species, and I chose a panda as my main character because pandas symbolize endangered species. In the game Panda, the player will manipulate a panda and try to survive as long as possible. Several factors will cause the death of the panda, for example, a car accident, predator, hunter, etc. After each death, a fact sheet will pop out that will tell the user about the human reason that caused the panda's death and what they can do to prevent that from happening. For example, if a panda dead in a car accident, then the fact sheet will tell the player that each year in the U.S., there are 1 to 2 million wildlife deaths from car accidents, and supporting the Roadless Rule can help reduce car accidents. My proposed solution still needs to be validated because few people have played or know about my game. In the future, when more people play my game, I will survey whether my solution works.

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Team Comments

My inspiration is a video I saw on the internet, there are a lot of wildlife being killed by human. I need to do something with it, so I create this game that will make people be more aware on the wild animal.

The part I had the most struggle with was the roads. Roads are the only chunk that needs to be in continuous order, and all other chunk is randomly placed on the map. As a solution, I changed the possibility of road chunks beside other roads and made some restrictions.

If I had more time, I would make the art better because the art is a little bit simple. Also, I would add some new creatures that could be pandas' friends or enemies to make the game more interesting. Adding a survey at the end of my game would also be helpful to know the impact of my game.