Garage2020 – Kind Regards

Client Description:

Garage2020 is working to achieve this goal by designing solutions for concrete problems experienced by children, young people, parents, and their environment. The organization does this in collaboration with various experts, and with those for whom the innovation is intended so that their perspective is central. With these innovations, they want to prevent, shorten or replace existing forms of youth care.

Children waiting for Youth Care, wait for an average of 10 months to get help. During this time, their problems can worsen very badly. They want these children to be “distracted” while waiting for the actual help.

Description of the Assignment

Children waiting for Youth Care, wait for an average of 10 months to get help. During this time, their problems can worsen. Garage2020 want these children to be “distracted” while waiting for the actual help. We need to improve on the previous version of a game that will help these children to be distracted for these 10 months.

Game Description:

The main focus of the game for the child is to open up to other people. In this way, he/she can receive support that will help him to face difficult times. In the game the child will create a bond it animal that he will be picked and customize. It will keep him company during the days. There is also a diary he can use to write his thoughts and record what happens in their life. It is important for a child to have a diary. It heals from stress and negative emotions.

Team Members:

• Ryan Kusters
• Marina Stancu
• Guylian Gilsing
• Alessandro Busacchi
• Wesley Arends
• Atanas Aleksandrov Georgiev

Key features of the game:

• Animals
  • Selectable animals
  • Interactable animals
• Movable camera
• Diary
  • Lock
  • Mood selection
  • Locally saved
• Messaging
• Stickers

Supported platforms: Android

How To Play:

Like any mobile application! First, select your favorite pet. Then you can use the menu on the right to navigate to all the different features. Tap on the pet to send a message and watch the paper plane being sent away.

Installation instructions:

Running it locally: To run the game locally on your computer, you need first need to download the zip file. Then add the unity project from your disk through Unity Hub. Lastly, you need to run the API, this can be done through several methods. The recommended method is to install docker + docker-compose and run it through docker-compose.

Running it on your phone: Put the .apk file in the proper device. One there on the device navigate to the location of the file and press it. A prompted will appear if you would like to install the program form an unknown developer and the user klicks install the application is installed and ready for use like a normal application.

IMPORTANT: The API needs to be deployed and the URL needs to be configured within Unity for the connection to work when you run it through this method.