The Product

The team has designed and implemented a simple, attractive, and easy-to-use Android application to satisfy the following goals:

A mobile Android application that allows players to hunt for the coolest QR codes that score the most points. Players will run around the real world scanning QR codes, barcodes, etc. (i.e. scannable codes) trying to find the ones that give them the most points.

Scannable codes will be hashed and the hashes they produce will be analyzed and scored. A QR code that has certain properties (e.g. repeated nibbles, bytes / hex digits) will have a higher score than a QR code that does not (there was a proposed scoring system, but we were free to use a different scoring system).

Players will be competing against each other for the highest scoring QR codes, the most QR codes scanned, the highest sum of QR code scores, and/or the highest scoring QR codes in a certain region.

When a player scans a QR code, they can take a photo of what or where the QR code is as well as record the geolocation of the QR code.

All players can see on a map of local QR codes that other players have scanned.