Whack-a-Prof is a game developed by a team of students for CISC 3140: Large Scale Web Applications at Brooklyn College in the Spring 2018 semester.
The team was divided into four groups:
- Specifications
- Quality Assurance / Documentation
- Graphics / Sound
- Backbone
The game consists of a playing field with several "blinds" behind which characters hide and reveal themselves. The player is equipped with a mallet, which they can use to hit the characters when they are revealed. Hitting or failing to hit characters will add or deduct points from the player's score. Each game has a duration of 60 seconds, and a countdown timer informs the player of their remaining time.
There are three categories of characters with different point values:
- Professors (+5 hit, -0 miss)
- Administrators (+10 hit, -0 miss)
- Trustees (+20 hit, -10 miss)
Additionally, Trustees explode in a hail of blood and guts when they are hit.