Computer Science

KidFinance

In the app market, most money-saving apps have complicated UI and only target adults. KidFinance is a money-saving app targeting kids and teenagers. It allows user to develop a personalized financial record portfolio, with one of the simplest but attractive income/expense management and review functions. Moreover, to attract teens establishing money saving habit, they can set a money saving target and get award. Furthermore, surprise achievements also pop up according to their money saving/expense behavior (E.g. If they rely too much on parents to get money).

Animal shield

Nowadays we often see posts of finding lost animals on social media. Also, there are posts discussing discovering stray animals on streets. However, these social media are not effective enough, since the news feed of users will change from time to time.

Seen in this light, our team hopes to develop an application which solely focus on spreading information on finding lost pets and rescuing stray animals. Users can make use of our platform to seek help. Our application will also connect to the vet clinics to make finding vet more convenient. Our application will also update users with news focusing on pet-caring and pet issues, these news and useful pet-caring tips will give positive influence on users to increase their attention on animal rights.

Lost slime: a new home

Lost Slime is a Multiplayer-Educational-Rhythm game that runs on your web browser, written in javascript with Node.js, Express.js and Socket.IO. It is designed to be lightweight and responsive to run on any PC.

Find Slimies new houses! Players compete to stack the tallest pillar to gain a high ground — which helps Slimies in spotting new locations for housing. To stack a pillar block, players time their space-bars along with the music beats. There are also phrases or sentences intertwined, that players have to input correctly before pressing space-bar. With these two objectives carried out, Slimies can then jump on the newly stacked pillar block!

What’s more, there are two additional single-player modes, where players strive for stacking the tallest pillar in High-score Mode, as well as surviving as long as possible, in Survival Mode, before the camera catches up!

We set out in making the game casually improve players’ typing proficiency. It could be cheerful-lighthearted, or mechanically intensive. We have designed an additional beat-mapper program to translate music pieces into custom track information used by the game, in json format. Which means players can create authentic mappings with their favorite music!

Tenki

At Tenki, we hope to delivery accurate local weather data to Hong Kong citizens in minimal manner.

Tenki is a revolutionary weather app. Retrieving its data from Hong Kong Observatory, Tenki provides accurate local weather data to HK citizens. The redesigned minimalistic user interface provides a distinctive and holistic user experience. Users get to access their desired information at their fingertips.

Tenki updates weather information according to users’ location. Users can receive notifications in case of special weather conditions. They can also access to other information such as weather forecast and astronomic data.

LunchToGether

People often relate eating alone with loneliness. A research found that eating alone may result in various health problems including depression, obesity and having metabolic syndrome. There are different constrains, like time limit and geological separation, in finding friends to gather for lunch, yet, having lunch is a good social activity to meet people. LunchToGether is a match app for lunch dates, linking people in nearby region wishing to have lunch in the same period of time together to form lunch date groups. The app features instant multiple matching. Whenever you would have lunch, launch the app, then we will make all the arrangements for you.

Go Princess

Go Princess is a 2D escape adventure game made with unity. While sleeping beauty waits hundreds of years for prince’s kiss, our princess wakes up and fight for her destiny. The princess has two tasks, namely keeping alive and escaping. To keep alive, princess should elude possible monsters in her way out. She also need to walk around to find food to support since health point decreases with time. To find the way to escape, she will interact with many NPCs in castle, from whom she might receive messages or useful tools. Finally she will fight with wizard in the main door to get freedom.

The Library: A stealth game

The Library is a horror/stealth game with an interesting narrative and immersive 3D Graphics. It is set in a library scene with several obstacles which the player must dodge while being chased by a monster. The player is exposed to three power ups through the course of the game- restore sanity, Speed gain and invisibility which aid help him/her in his escape. The goal of the game is to obtain 4 out of the 7 hidden keys and finally escape from the clutches of the monster through the exit door without losing his sanity. The game was developed using the Unity Game Engine and captures the lenses of surprise, fun and curiosity.

Bookbytes

Bookbytes serves as an online social networking platform for both avid book readers and causal book readers. Users can maintain a list of books to read,already read, dropped and on hold. The defining feature is the availability of a multitude of book clubs catering to people of all ages of all tastes from all parts of the world, except maybe Antarctica. Users can also give and receive book recommendations, post on threads in the clubs they are in and also post comments in the thread. In essence, Bookbytes is a dedicated platform where book lovers can explore their ‘niche’ to their hearts’ content.Currently, only a free-app version with ad revenue pricing model is under consideration.

Club Grenade

Club Grenade is a fast-paced multiplayer action game which a group of friends and family of all ages, at a maximum of four players, can enjoy. In the game, each player controls a character who infiltrates a high-tech facility and fights through waves of enemies with grenades only. The game has a cartoony art-style with cel shading and outline. The game currently features four unique playable characters, four types of enemies, five types of grenades and a single large level with three stages, all fully animated and textured. The players win if they defeat all enemies and exit the level, or lose if all players have been defeated.