Codevember XII: About finding a parking spot, Multiplayer Wave Defense Fishing Game and much more!
XII’th time’s the charme! For this year, the Codevember event took place in Karlsruhe, home of Germanys first Octopus Döner (which none tasted AFAIK). This time, the host was the FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, an applied research center for IT solutions and boy, did we have fun.
Read more: Codevember XII: About finding a parking spot, Multiplayer Wave Defense Fishing Game and much more!Mobility4BW – open mobility data from Baden-Württemberg accessible on your phone
One project addresses the accessibility of open parking spaces, bike sharing, and public transportation route data: Mobility4BW, an app for Android and iOS (soon), developed using Flutter/Dart. It is solely fed by OpenData from MobiData BW, which provides information about public parking services, transportation, and mobility sharing offers through different standard formats and APIs. To support offline functionality and additional redundancy, the app performs caching and utilizes a self-hosted proxy server for the GTFS transportation feed and geocoder. Check out the live demo website for a quick glimpse and the codebase at https://github.com/p-schulz/mobidata-bw-flutter!
Tour through the FZI House of Living Labs
In a small guided tour through the research environment FZI House of Living Labs, the guests of Codevember XII were able to experience the on-site research prototypes and got an idea of the various fields of FZI’s application areas.
project riot: a multiplayer wave defense
We had another entry, that head a headstart prior to the codevember: project riot. A small Unity multiplayer game that features cooperation and teamwork: While you get resources through fishing, you also need to make sure to defend your base from enemies.
While the prior work went quite well, we found out to have struggles getting the network running within a new environment. Therefore, we focused more onto making everything more robust as well as a lot of conceptional work (levels, story, mechanics). This was also quite nice and refreshing to get a new perspective on the already integrated features.
Big thanks
Shout out for every participant and guest visiting our CodeVember XII event! Without your open mind and ambition, a creative space is just a room with furniture and blinking LEDs. The team of CodeVember e.V. is hoping for you engagement in the year 2026 and – see you soon 🙂
