Litter Logic

Hackathon 2023 - ISolutions

Introduction

This year, ISolutions (the company I work for) organized a Hackathon about GreenCode 🌱, so each one of the groups had to create a Project related to environmental sustainability. At the beginning my group was made up by me and one of my coworkers, but (fortunately) three guys from the the school we were hosted showed up and we melted in a new team, G.E.N .

The Idea

The idea came from the three guys, so we came up with a game for really young children, from 3 to 8 years old. This game is ment to teach how to correctly differentiate litter in a fun way. It’s a card based game, where you have three cards in the hand (virtually) and you have to correctly put them in the right trash.

Game Logic

The player starts with three cards, the total of the cards is fifty, in the middle of the page there are five trashes (paper, plastic, organic, alluminium and waste), the player has 60 seconds to trow the more cards he can in the correct trash, every time he makes the correct choice he scores one point, every time he makes the wrong choice one point is subtracted from the score until he gets to 0. To make the game more challenging (challenging for a children of course), we added five Gold cards, these cards are a little-bit more complicated to guess the correct trash, for this reason they value 2 points. We added a Record field too.

Demo

Graphics

We really want to thank the only girl in our team for the magnificent work she did for the creation of the graphic (she is only 17), she spent the entire night drawing all the 50 cards, we are sure we won not only for the idea but mostly for the design of our game, she chose the right way to create cards for a young public, made them very attactive for such a young public. Thank you.

Final Result

At the end, we won against the other 3 teams, we are very proud of our work, and we are thinking to realize an application for this project, to help more children to learn in a fun way how to correctly differentiate litter, and we hope we will grow a more aware generation of recyclers.

Thank you to my team-mate @NicoAvanzDev, Angelo Zirafi, Arianna Orlandini, Gabriele Lo Nero.