A career success app disguised as a pet simulator! Take care of your slug by setting and achieveing goals, all of which are tailored to your specific academic plans. Start by hatching sammy from an egg and work hard to collect every slug! Use this to find new opportuntites while also watching your friends progress alongside you. For clubs/organizations, use this app to advertise your event and boost attendance by offering club-specific prizes in-game. Think of it as a central hub for UCSC events while also being a fun planner.
Implemented:
- Feed your very own slug with bananas
- Banana count and Slug points tracker
- Buttons to navigate to differet pages
Not Implemented:
- status tracker for slug's happiness, increments based on hunger and goals achieved
- Life stages, where the slug beings as an egg and can grow as you take care of it
- Option to hatch more slug eggs, earned through events and level benchmarks
Implemented:
- Display your slug in new outfits
- Scroll through your acquired items
Not Implemented:
- Assets for your slug wearing each clothing item
- Shop option to buy new clothes using slug points
Implemented:
- Displays your slug
- features a list of statistics for various parts of the game
Not Implemented:
- CUSTOM GOAL SETTING: take a quiz to set up your profile. Customizes your goals based on your major and career plans. Ex: If you are hoping to get an internship next summer, it will prioritize events like career fairs, and guide you to skill building workshops for your specific major. Based on your interests, it will advertise opportunities and give you recommendations for what to do next. This will be a larger part of the project, which intakes a large number of UCSC newsletters and social media posts to have an updated list of events happening around campus.
- Achievements/rewards earned through attending events and achieving different goals
Implemented:
- A sample display of users and their banana points
Not Implemented:
- Incoorparating actual user statistics to create a leaderboard
- "Friends" and "Schoolwide" tab to see where you fall on each scale
Implemented:
- Two sections, daily and weekly goals
- Daily: example of smaller tasks that should be done daily
- Weekly: events happening in the upcoming week
Not Implemented:
- Customizing goals
- Adding events from the event page to goals
- An important list of deadlines that affect every student: campus election deadline, enrollment dates, class drop deadlines
- A large list of events happening around campus
- REGISTERED EVENTS: clubs/organizations can register their event in order to offer custom prizes in-game to attendees (club shirt for your slug, special achievement)