Pomodoro: The Pokémon Collecting Game!

A fun take on the Pomodoro Technique

So, what does this application do?

This application utilizes the famous Pomodoro Technique and turns it into something fun rather than a mere timer. Players can start the Pomodoro timer and begin working, with options to pause the timer, end the timer, and more. Once the task is complete, they will receive a random Pokémon and may exit the timer in order to keep or release them, as well as give them a name. These kept Pokémon will then be added to your collection, in which you can view at any time. All of these features allow for a fun experience while motivating the player to complete real life tasks in order to expand their collection.

Gotta Catch 'Em All!

What audience does this application target?

This application is meant for people who struggle to be productive because working/studying is boring. No one wants to complete all their work just for there to be no reward at the end. This app attempts to make the user feel rewarded when they complete tasks so that they can feel motivated to do more work. This is known as positive reinforcement, a popular concept in psychology. While this application may resonate more strongly with individuals familiar with the Pokémon franchise, it can be picked up and enjoyed by anyone.

Why am I interested in making this application?

Throughout my entire life, I have played video games as a hobby. I love the fact that I can boot up a game and get immersed in a virtual world, alleviating the stress of my everyday life. Video games have always been very therapeutic to me, and is the reason why myself and many others love playing games. Pokémon has always been one of my favourite games and hold some of my best childhood memories. Furthermore, I've always been very interested in making my own game. I am hoping that creating this application can give me insight on some design aspects required to make a simple interactive game, while also being a project that genuinely seems fun to create.

User Stories

As a user, I want to be able to...

• Start a Pomodoro Timer
• Pause a Pomodoro Timer
• Unpause a Pomodoro timer
• Reset a Pomodoro Timer
• Choose which Pokémon I want to add to my collection
• Check my collection of Pokémon
• Save my Pokémon collection to file
• Load my Pokémon collection to file

Phase 4: Task 2

Fri Nov 26 11:28:09 PST 2021.
Added Pokemon to Collection.
Fri Nov 26 11:28:09 PST 2021
Added Pokemon to Collection.
Fri Nov 26 11:28:11 PST 2021
Saved Pokemon to JSON.
Fri Nov 26 11:28:11 PST 2021
Saved Pokemon to JSON.

Phase 4: Task 3

####If I had more time to work on this project, I would definitely improve on:

• My cohesion in my PomodoroPokemonGUI class. Currently, I have multiple classes that represent different GUI menus within my PomodoroPokemonGUI class (e.g. TimerMenu, SelectionMenu, CollectionPanel), which I should probably have separated into different class objects in my ui package. I also have CustomOutputStream, which may have been better to also make a new class object for.

• Simplifying my Pokemon collecting process by entirely eliminating the TempCollection class. I believe that there is a simpler way to keep track of which Pokemon are added or removed to my collection, and that the usage of TempCollection is a very roundabout way of doing so currently.

• Make my TimerMenu less console-reliant and more graphical-reliant. Right now, it just creates a JTextArea of the console output. I would like to refactor it to display numbers as a JLabel on the GUI, but in order to do so, I must reduce the amount of coupling that would occur. I had initially attempted to do it this way, but found that coupling was too much of an issue.

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