Orbital 2021

Proposal for Orbital 2021
Team Name: FixMyLife
Proposed Level of Achievement: Artemis

Motivation

Have you ever thought why you aren’t getting your tasks done? Or why you keep missing/forgetting deadlines? And when you tried using a to-do list to fix your life, you inevitably stopped using it. Many have tried using a planner/to-do lists to organise their lives but most stopped using them after a while. This can be attributed to laziness, troublesomeness of updating their lists constantly, little to no incentive for the extra effort put into maintaining their list. Surely there is a better way to do this? By taking inspirations from Prof Ben Leong’s coursemology website, we are here to fix that (and your life!) through our gamified to-do list. Who says that doing tasks have to be painful and boring? The gamified system will add a ton of fun and further incentivise/motivate you so that you can finish your task.

Aim

We hope to make a more effective and fun way for users to stay on task through a gamified to-do list app.

Features

The To-do list provides an interface for users to keep track of their important deadlines as well as to stay up to date with their daily task with the following features:

• Addition and removal of tasks
• Adding reminders and deadlines
• Adding custom categories (e.g. work, relationships, health and fitness)
• Filter and sorting capabilities

Gamification of the To-do list will provide RPG-like elements to reward users for completing tasks on time with features such as:

• Character avatar with a power level that progresses with the completion of tasks, which will be reflected in terms of character level and stats
• Gold and EXP progression system
• In game shop to purchase items to enhance one’s character avatar’s abilities
• Fighting of Monsters
• Graphic implementation of the game elements to make it more visually appealing

The app will feature Social elements including:

• Friends and gifting system
• Leaderboards
• Party System to incentivise party members to encourage and motivate their other party members who are falling behind on their tasks

Backend features:

• Synchronization of account progress across devices
• Storage of account progress on backend database

Timeline

1. Evaluation Milestone 1 (31 May 2021)

   • To implement a login screen with Firebase

2. Evaluation Milestone 2 (28 Jun 2021)

   • Skeletal gameplay elements

     1. Character Stats (Attack, Defense, HP etc)
     2. HP & MP (Resources for battles)
     3. Battling System (Attack, Heal, Magic)
     4. Shop systems (Ways to spend gold to get better equipments)

   • To implement a functional to do list

     1. Functional GUI to view to do list
     2. Formatting of features
     3. To add items to todo list
     4. To remove items from todo list

3. Evaluation Milestone 3 (26 Jul 2021)

   • To implement addition to do list features

     1. Sorting by priority/time
     2. Filter by categories
     3. Reminders

   • To implement progress system

     1. EXP and Gold system
     2. RPG character elements
     3. Progress Log (to show an overview of what you have done for the month/week)
     4. Customizability (app + character avatar customizability)

   • Design and Aesthetics

     1. Character Sprite work (likely 8-bit style)
     2. Design Consistency
     3. Music and sound design

   • Backend development

     1. Synchronization of progress across devices
     2. Leaderboard system
     3. Friend system
     4. Party System (enable users to motivate one another to stay on task)