Franklin Regional seniors headed to national Future Enterprise Leaders of America competitors finals
Franklin Regional students Augusto Butkewitsch and Jacob Toniolo can add 3 additional words to their word-primarily based video game — “Pennsylvania,” “state” and “champions.”
The seniors from Murrysville came out on major in the pc games and simulation applications category at the statewide higher college competitors organized by the Future Enterprise Leaders of America soon after producing “KeyCoder,” a series of 5 word games. They will now take their game to the national competitors subsequent month.
Butkewitsch, 17, competed in the exact same category final year.
“The theme final year was an ’80s-primarily based video game, and I seriously liked that the video game category was seriously a blank slate. It was wonderful to be capable to take so several inventive liberties,” he stated.
Butkewitsch has also taken coding classes at Franklin Regional Senior Higher College, and computer systems in a single of his classrooms have access to the Unity game engine computer software, which he and Toniolo applied to style “KeyCoder.”
“He could do a lot of the coding, and I was capable to do the art,” Toniolo stated. “I’ve taken engineering classes right here exactly where we made 3D models, and that was a significant assistance in designing a 3D atmosphere for the game.”
“KeyCoder” even incorporates a small of final year’s ’80s theme.
“We made it as a particular person playing the 5 various games in an ’80s-style perform workplace,” Butkewitsch stated.
The games in “KeyCoder” include things like a single pretty comparable to the well known New York Instances game Wordle a version of the classic “hangman” letter/word-guessing game, two games named “decipher” exactly where players can opt for to attempt and translate words spoken with a phonetic alphabet, or with Morse code and fifth game exactly where players acquire a definition and have to guess the word.
Toniolo stated he drew on not only his engineering classes, but also his English classes.
“We had to give a seven minute presentation at the national competitors,” he stated. “My English classes undoubtedly helped me.”
The national competitors will take spot throughout the FBLA’s annual National Leadership Conference, held June 22-30 in Atlanta.
Patrick Varine is a Tribune-Evaluation employees writer. You can speak to Patrick by e mail at pvarine@triblive.com or through Twitter .
