It's the end of February, and that means only one thing. Its HackSussex time!
This year Jessica Long, Matthew Flowers and I, decided to tackle London Gatwick's challenge 'Make gate waiting fun, relaxing and profitable'. We decided to make a crazy-taxi style game in which you boarding bus around the airfield in Gatwick, without crashing into anything! Additionally, the higher score you get, the better boarding group you can achieve, and you are directly competing LIVE against your other passengers!
We built the front-end using a combination of VueJS, and p5.js, the backend in Python Flask, and all of the *hand-drawn* assets using Affinity Photo. All deployed via a CI/CD pipeline through DigitalOcean's App Platform, which made development, and deployment, a breeze.
If you would like to have a go yourself at our game, you can access it at: https://gatwickgo.uk (it's a new domain so some firewalls will block it). Unfortunately, we didn't win the Gatwick track, however we did win the prize for the 'Best Use of DigitalOcean' from Major League Hacking (thanks Oscar Ryley!). We would also love to give a massive thank you to Charlotte Richardson, and the rest of the HackSussex team for organising a brilliant event yet again. We had so much fun creating our hack, and loved seeing what crazy idea's people came up with over the weekend! We're all looking forward to competing again in the competition next year!!If you would like to read more about GatwickGo, take a look at our Devpost from the Hackathon here, and additionally take a look at our source code on GitHub here.