Project
College Experience
Survive 8 semesters
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An Android game about surviving college: each month you choose how to spend your time and try to keep your money, sanity, grades and health up until you graduate.
- Java
- Android
- Game
About the game
College Experience is an Android game I built with a partner in spring 2020. You start college with five stats: money, sanity, education, health, and restlessness. Every turn is one month, and you decide how to spend it.
How it plays
Each choice helps some stats and costs others:
| Choice | What it does |
|---|---|
| Buy textbooks | Education +5, money −10 |
| Study with friends | Education +3, sanity +5, restlessness +10 |
| Study alone | Education +10, restlessness +9, sanity −10 |
| Sleep | A little of everything: +3 to money, sanity, education and health, restlessness −3 |
| Exercise | Health +10, sanity +5, restlessness +10, education −3 |
| Work | Money +15, restlessness +10, education −5 |
| Night out | Sanity +7, but education −5, money −5, health −7 |
| Health center | Health +3, sanity +3, education −3 |
Then something might happen: a pop quiz (you pass or fail depending on your education), your parents sending money, getting sick, passing out in class, or not being able to pay for your streaming subscriptions.
Winning and losing
- Lose if money, sanity, education, or health drops to 0, or restlessness reaches 100.
- Win by making it through all 8 semesters and graduating.
Built with
Java and the Android SDK in Android Studio, built with Gradle. Each screen (main menu, monthly choices, results, win and lose) is its own Android activity, and background music runs as a service.
Walkthrough
Work in progress.