High-Level Project Summary
We created a game in which all the players can both develop their knowledge about space and also have fun with friends. It can help people to advance their knowledge in a sphere of astronomy. Our main goal is to inspire people to learn something new, because as we know, there aren't still such games like ours. As we know, the astronomy field in our country is not developed as much as needed. People do not pay attention just because it seems so boring and difficult to them . By creating this game we want to showcase the importance of the astronomy. We have combined useful information with something interesting in order to motivate people to continue their journey into space and beyond.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
First of all, our board game will be something unusual, because it is the mix of all previous games you have ever seen. 4 players are needed in order to have maximum effort playing the game. Each of them can choose one of four civilizations and start in their own systems. The project we have already published is just a prototype of an actual game, because as you know "Rome wasn't built in a day (or two)". Main map will likely look like that one that is published, but it will have more real-time details in order to be really realistic, so the game won't be just fantasy (but it has some elements of it to be interesting, though). As we mentioned before, it develops such skill as critical thinking, leadership, communication and also improve knowledge about space at all.
We are hoping that this game will be published everywhere, so any person can enjoy it along with their friend and relatives.
In order to create this project, we used a little bit coding with mobile and web to access the real-time data in mobile app. Besides that, we have created an early draft of 3d-models of players, tokens and map. To fulfill it, blender and unity programs were used also.
PS: Consider the fact that an apk file that was linked to our project is a companion app which is connected to our main board game. For example, in order to see how much would it cost to terraform a new planet you have to open the app and see the needed information there. Besides that, in mobile app there would be trivia questions about space, answering which can help you get extra in-game money.
Space Agency Data
https://trek.nasa.gov/#galleries_layers
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html
This pages helped us a lot in order to get motivated with creating our game; we also used the pictures and tracks to finish our map within a game
Hackathon Journey
This journey was really incredible and unforgettable. I can't just name all the new things I learned about. And the greatest thing of it was the fact that our project will get a thousands people acknowledged about our galaxy and the planets beyond. We always wanted to benefit the humanity and now we got such opportunity because of spaceapps challenge.
I would like to thank each of our team member and all the mentors who were with us during this long but important journey.
Even though half of our team was in another city, it hadn't stopped us from finishing the project and sending the main message: "Everything is possible if you have enough courage and motivation!"
References
Data and information:
https://trek.nasa.gov/#galleries_layers
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiplanetary_systems
Tools and inspiration:
https://www.thingverse.com
https://www.tinkercad.com
https://www.autodesk.com
https://www.blender.org
https://www.fiverr.com/
https://www.instructables.com/Build-your-Own-Board-Game/
https://nerdsonearth.com/2018/03/7-types-board-games/
Tags
#game, #boardgame, #art, #space, #galaxy, #planetarysystem, #app, #3d, #website
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