High-Level Project Summary
Hello folks! Welcome to the mysterious and colassal world of the Frontiers. Frontiers is a colony management game which you take place in the middle of the people who started travelling for a new place to live. Choose your planet, prepare your AI-Managed robots and start the adventure. Use your limited resources, make the right decisions to improve, reach to other planets. Who knows? Maybe you can find colonies just like yours and start trading with'em. Do you think that you can defend your colony from the SpaceRaiders, natural disasters and meteors coming towards your planet? Well, if your answer is yes, there's only one question left: ARE YOU READY TO EXPLORE DISTANT FRONTIERS?
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
"Frontiers" is an isometric-perspectived game that lets you play the adventure of the people who are looking for a new planet to live due to insufficient resources and overpopulation on earth. The main goal is to make your colony survive and improve after you choose the planet to live on. Choosing the families which will be living in your chosen planet, will be completely picked by the player. For an example you can either choose a family that is successful in science or either a family that is familiar with farming and groving plants. Your first and nearly only mission is to create a sustainable living by making the right decisions depending on the planet's resources and using the right amount of the resource on the right necessity. Nobody wants to watch a colony collapsing because of the "misused resources", right?
Speaking of which, if you are going to pick a planet that is suitable for agriculture, you are expected to make agriculture-based improvements OR if you've picked a planet that is full of useful ores, maybe you should try to sell the ores to different colonies for other needs in your colony.
You have to prepare your colony against dangers beforehand. Moreover, you need to manage your resources wisely. You must create better life conditions by using the right materials. To do so, you can even contact with other colonies to find your shortcomings.
Space Agency Data
First of all we would like to thank NASA for the huge data and possibilities which they provided for us . We were amazed by the amount of de data . We used https://trek.nasa.gov/# for get views of planets . It helped us so much . It made our job a lot easier. The resources on the https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/ was so good and high quality documents . We used some animated programs to make impressive presentations . We also used some internet sites to calculate feasibility.
Hackathon Journey
We were a little bit nerveous because it was going to be an online experience . Then we figured out the challenge was entertaining and teaching at the same time in both ways . NASA made it easier for us with the amazing data and privileges . It was very enjoyable for all of the members on our team . We learned the process of searching . We have given a huge opportunity to experience the teamwork . Working as a team and solving some problems with a team was a very good feeling . We chose this challenge because we all love playing games and talking about them . We wanted to show the fascinating and though experience of building a colony in a different planet at space . We wanted the player to make critical decisions on events that have important affects on the planet.
Also we wanted to work as a team as much as we can to come with different solutions to diffucult problems .
We wanted to thank NASA for this enjoyable challange and also METU YES for giving us the chance to attend this challange from Turkey . Additionaly we would like to thank our mentors - İdris Albayrak , Hidayetullah Uygur- and our English teacher Ayşenur Aktaş .
References
https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/
Adobe Character Animator
Davinci Resolve
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro
https://online-voice-recorder.com/tr/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALqEM_BNq7w&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=TechandBeyondWithMoss
https://www.indiegamesmarketer.com/how-to-budget-indie-game/
Tags
#game , #space , #survive , #colonize
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