Space Apps Challenge 2017

Summary:

Beach Conquest is an educational game that provides users with precautions before heading out to the beach, using real time levels of UV on the beach they are at.

We've set up the perfect way to reward and penalise users, using a system of in-game health (HP) and points (XP). The 'HP' of every player decreases proportional to the exposure in the sun and their 'XP' increases when they visit safe beaches with low risk of UV and HAB. The aim of the game is for teams to capture beaches and players to thereby gain more points. The beach belongs to the team with most number of healthy players on it. The difficulty of capturing a beach is proportional to how safe the beach is.

Beach Conquest is a fun way to discover beaches and meet new people all while staying safe from the sun!

A short infographic can be found at https://goo.gl/KiSAIf
Submission URL: https://goo.gl/jCk1Mc

Tools used:

Back-end:

Ruby on Rails
Ruby
Python
SQLite

Front-end:

Android Studio
Retrofit

MaterialDesign

References:

Openweathermap API for finding UV Index
https://www.epa.gov/sunsafety
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/hab/
https://service.ncddc.noaa.gov/website/AGSViewers/...
http://opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/dfd5e2914bd249...