Snowball FIGHT

Winter Summit 2018 Hackathon

Transcript

1. Snowball FIGHT™ Development: Adam Colpitts, Cristian Guerrero, Mitch Langlois, Scott Barrow
2. “To create a pervasive experience on a well-known childhood game by augmenting modern technology to assist in the organization, tracking and rating of games, while being unobtrusive to the traditional snowball fight experience.” Goals
3. To create Unique Selling Proposition’s that set’s Snowballfight apart from other platforms such as Facebook, Meetup.com.
 Best use of the diverse skills within the team to reach target goals.
 Challenges
4. Summary “Snowball fight is community website aimed at bringing simple fun to snowy days. Whether it’s a traditional two sided snowballfight until exhaustion or a skilled game of “Capture the flag”. Snowballfight is the hub to organize and rank snowball fight games.”
5. Game types - Traditional, Team game, Capture the flag(toque), Fugitive.
 Search - Find snowball fights by location
 Be an organizer - Organize and get ratings for snowball fights, selecting previous locations by their rating or scout new locations.
 Weather report - Snowball fights report weather for the scheduled day of the fight.
 Location map - Displays upcoming fights, locate and join games based on your geo-location, full map and street view automatically generated.
 Promote - Snowballfight provides tools to print a poster containing a unique QR code, allowing players to locate and signup from their device
 Leaderboard - Track top players.
 User profile - Each player gets a personal user profile with badges for their achievements.
 Features
6. Google Docs API Heroku challenges The definition of MVP is subjective 
 What we learned
7. Kanban/scum can be as simple as sticky notes
 What we learned
8. Snowtifications™ - Push and email alerts sent out to opt-in players that it’s a snow day, with a description detailing the nearest snowballfight.
 Spectator view - Spectators can watch a live game in play by tracking fighters on an overhead map. Team view - Players can track their team’s movements during the game using phone GPS.
 Improved Maps - Further map integration for manual pin placement Roadmap
9. Ask us anything Thank you https://speakerdeck.com/scottbarrow/tooling