High-Level Project Summary
We developed a 3d game to bring out the difficulty and amount of precision that goes into landing a spacecraft on the moon. In the game your objective is to land on the blue colored platform while conserving your fuel to win the game. This also brings out the difficulty of conserving fuel in space. This makes our game educational and fun!
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
Our game was made on a game engine called Unityand programmed on Visual Studios. The game uses the C# programming language You first start the game at the Main Menu which has three buttons: Play, Credits and Quit. When you press play it takes you to a different screen that shows you the objective and controls. In the game scene there is a settings tab which has 2 sliders which allows the user to change the force and torque.
The controls are: Arrow keys to control the lander, space bar for thrust.
If you land on the blue platform then it switches to a "You Win" scene. If you crash, run out of fuel or don't land properly, it plays an explosion and switches to a "You Lost" Scene. We hope to add more levels and landers in the future. This is how the game works.
Space Agency Data
When we were scrolling through NASA's website we stumbled across a page that was talking about the simulators they use to train astronauts. This is how we came up with the idea of having it so that you are using NASA's new training facility.
Hackathon Journey
After choosing this challenge we decided on creating a 3D side scroller. After making the main menu, we started on the main game. When we started making the platform for the game there was an issue. The 3d model we were using for the platform had missing polys. This made the game look bad and un-professional. We decided to scrap the idea and started making a new game. This game starts off saying that you are selected to train in NASA's new training facilities. This time there were no problems.
References
Game Engine:
Unity
Music:
Undertale - Megalovania
Duck Tales - Moon Theme
Terraria - Rain
UI:
Pixilart.com
Landing Module:
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-model-dummy-landing-module-1782671
Font:
https://www.dafont.com/bitmap.php
Tags
#descensorium #Cool #Fun #Educational #Hard #moonlander #Potential Winners
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