High-Level Project Summary
We are doing the challenge space quest the game. Our game’s story is that there is a pandemic and you have to collect all the parts of the antidote. You will have to roll the dice and move. The solution to our problem is to make a board game that educates people about space. We did this because we thought this would be fun. By explaining space in greater detail, we hope to educate people on the concepts of what is out there in space . It is important because people should know more about space since we will travel through space one day.
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Detailed Project Description
Galactic Pandemic
Our goal is to make a game that can teach people about space while also being fun.
The storyline and goal of our game is that you are caught in a galaxy wide pandemic and your mission is to find the cure(4-6 players).
You start on earth and have to travel along the paths to find different parts of the antidote, for the first 2 antidote pieces, you will travel back to earth after you have found the antidote. When you find the last piece of the antidote, the game is over. There can be up to 5 players when playing. When you find a part of the antidote, you will also get a key which opens up more of the game board.
Gameboard Symbols:
The tiles are big asteroids that you can safely land on, chance card tiles, space platforms, Lock platforms and Worm holes. Some of the objects are:
- asteroids
- supernovas
- disease
- pulsars
-wormholes
There is a clump of asteroids with a line through them, this is because you have to open the first lock to unlock the ability to break through it without destroying your ship.
Asteroids:
· When you land on the asteroids that you can land on, you have two choices, to stay and mine for resources or keep going.
· Players can be sabotaged and resources can be stolen if players on the same tile on the board
· Some chance cards offer abilities to extend a player’s reach of sabotage and stealing of another player’s resource.
Chance Cards:
· Chance card tiles they give you 1 extra chance card if you land on them.
Platforms:
· When you land on a space platform, it is impossible for other players to sabotage your spaceship.
· If two or more players are on a platform all players will roll and the highest roll wins the space and the other players move back one space.
Locked Platforms:
· Lock platforms need a key in order for you to go through them; keys are located with the parts of the antidote.
Wormholes:
· Worm holes let you travel fast across the board, you know which worm hole to go to because the worm hole will have bent space time between them.
At the start of the game players will roll dice 🎲 to start moving forward.
There are 2 main kinds of game spaces, there are asteroids and space platforms.
Taking a chance card…
The Cure:
The cure is separated into 3 parts each located on a planet.
The cure is found alongside a key 🔐 that unlocks another part of the map to complete the game.
Chance Cards:
Chance cards are obtained by landing on a chance card space and can be lucky, unlucky, or super unlucky.
Equipment Cards and Resource Points:
Equipment cards are equipment that you can attach (not literally) to your spaceship to give it a boost such as a warp drive or shielding.
Equipment cards can be obtained by making or buying them using resource points or by getting the random tool chance card.(gives one random tool)
Resource Points:
Resource points are used to buy equipment. To get resource points you need to do asteroid mining using mining lasers however you can only mine on an asteroid.
If a player wishes to mine on their turn they say to the other players that they want to mine, the player will then get 2-5 resource points but will have to skip there turn.
Players can also obtain resource points from stealing and sabotaging other players
Player abilities:
When on certain spaces players will get abilities that can be applied at any time if all requirements are met.
Space Agency Data
Deewen: I was interested about wormholes because I like the concept of bending space/time to travel faster to get from one place to the other as fast as possible. We did not see much on NASA, but we found several very interesting videos on Youtube from PBS that describes some of these ideas.
Jason:
Corey: I learned a lot more about space and found out that black holes have an opposite to them called white holes and that through them you can theoretically travel from one side to the other. we used these ideas as one of the main traveling functions in the board game.
Jason: I liked the new warp drive possibilities video, because it gave a detailed explanation of how potential warp drives can be used in the future. we used this information to show how the players can upgrade their rocket engines
Hackathon Journey
Cory: My experience of doing this challenge is pretty fun overall even though that sometimes it was very hard like when we attempted
to make a game on Roblox.
Jason A.: I like it because I found it interesting because I always liked space, and I also like board games.
Jason N.: It was pretty challenging, but we learned a lot more about how space works and chose the board game to educate more people about what we learned. We were initially thinking of doing a video game but ran out of time to develop the programming and decided to focus on the main idea of our game and convert it into a board game.
Deewen: It was fun and challenging, I liked being able to design various board game pieces and making the game map for the players to play on. I wish we had more time to make our game better, but I think we did a great job making it.
References
Foster, B. Z. (2021, May 20). Wormhole tunnels in spacetime may be possible, new research suggests. Scientific American. Retrieved October 3, 2021, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wormhole-tunnels-in-spacetime-may-be-possible-new-research-suggests/.
How to survive a supernova | science | AAAS. (n.d.). Retrieved October 3, 2021, from https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/08/how-survive-supernova.
NASA. (2021, July 23). What is a supernova? NASA. Retrieved October 3, 2021, from https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/supernova/en/.
NASA. (n.d.). Introduction to the electromagnetic spectrum. NASA. Retrieved October 3, 2021, from https://science.nasa.gov/ems/01_intro.
YouTube. (2015, October 15). 5 real possibilities for Interstellar Travel. YouTube. Retrieved October 3, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzZGPCyrpSU.
YouTube. (2021, April 21). The New Warp Drive Possibilities. YouTube. Retrieved October 3, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk5bxHetL4s.
Tags
#boardgames #magikid #spacetravel #teamwork
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