🥈 2nd Place — Dalhousie Hackers Society's Hack to the Future 2026
A semester planner that treats your academic term like an RPG.
Students input their courses, deadlines, and daily wellness data. The app turns that into a game-like interface where weeks are levels, exams are boss fights, and staying healthy keeps your HP up.
- Semester heatmap showing workload intensity per week
- Daily quest log with academic and wellness tasks
- HP bar tied to sleep, stress, and exercise check-ins
- XP earned by completing quests on time
- Boss fight warnings for upcoming exams and major deadlines
- Achievement system for building consistent habits
- Schedule import via ICS files, pasted syllabus text, or manual entry
npm install
npm start
Opens on http://localhost:3000
- Frontend: HTML, CSS, vanilla JS
- Backend: Node.js, Express, SQLite
- Auth: bcrypt password hashing, server-side sessions
- No frameworks, no build step
Matthew Sullivan and Rithvik Balavikram.