High-Level Project Summary
Steps on Mars: Marsnaut Simulator is a video game to guide tomorrow's Marsnauts, who are kids today. It simulates challenges from ground training to step on Mars with tasks of keeping crews safely alive. Each level focuses on different space crew safety challenges. The level will end with the learning of crew safety terms and actions. Space aspiring gamers can find what an astronaut will go into before a safe landing on Mars. This can later be developed as a Professional Astronaut Training Simulator with precise 3D modeling and possible calculations. Kids cherish being an astronaut, while most of them never experience how it feels on a space tour. they can live the moments of it in the game.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
Step on Mars: Marsnaut Simulator is a video game simulator to train up space enthusiast kids about Safety Measures before the first step on Mars,who are Marsnauts of tomorrow. Let's walk through our journey from our home planet to the next-door neighbor red planet. Imagine you’re the Marsnaut.
Gameplay :You’ll start the game as a lucky selection for a mission to Mars. You’ll choose a role on the Mars Expedition. It will lead you to the Ground Training level. You’ll do the tasks of Crew Safety Training in on-Earth Crew Training Center. On the next level, You’ll take part in checklist tasks before spaceship launch. After completing this step, spaceflight starts. Things will go a bit uncomfortable as you might not experience this ethereal situation. You’ll deal with problems of extreme physical challenges that you never perceived before. Successful completion of this game level will take you to the next challenge. You’ll learn challenges on leaving earth orbit. ‘OH My Gravity’ level will educate the player about crew safety on low gravity. You’ll face medical emergencies while leaving earth's lagrange point and keep the crews alive taking medicine and health safety measures. You’re going to save the spaceship and crews from solar flares, cosmic radiation, isolation problems, physical and mental health issues in the deep journey of nearly seven months in space. After successfully surviving the deep space journey, the spaceship will enter Mars orbit. Gameplays on the safe entrance on Red Planet are in “Hlw Neighbor” level. Keeping crew safe while Mars landing is the next gameplay. You’ll come out of the Marslander and take the next BIG STEP, start Walking on Mars, isn’t it surreal?
Each level will have a summary of what is learned in this gameplay and acknowledge the future Marsnauts about the challenges of being alive and safe till reaching our nearest Neighbor throughout the breathtaking journey...
Levels of Gameplay
The outcome of the Project :
Space enthusiastic people of the world can experience the steps an astronaut will have to go through before landing on Mars. This can be later developed as a Professional astronaut training simulator with accurate 3D modeling of space missions and probable mathematical calculation.
A lot of the kids cherish being an astronaut, while most of them never can experience how it feels on a space journey. By playing the game, they can live the moments and learn from the experience.
Space Crew Safety Terms and actions Learned :
Tools Used :
Game Environment: Unity Game Engine
Game Scripting : C# on Visual Studio
3D Model Edit and Export: Blender
2D Art, Game UI, Poster: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Sound: Audacity
Video Editing : Adobe Premiere
Space Agency Data
Health hazards of sending crew on space flight to Mars :
Traveling to Mars? Top 6 health challenges | Human World
Space Biology Program | Science Mission Directorate
Hazards of Human Spaceflight | Hazard 1: Space Radiation
Near Earth Challenges for Crew : Horizons mission - Soyuz: launch to orbit
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3RRA-BMh7wLsU7V6gUUSRwH
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22313.jpg
NASA 3D Models used in the Project :
Mark III Spacesuit | 3D Resources
2D icons and Images :
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22313.jpg
Hackathon Journey
WE MidDayDreams are taking part in NASA Spaceapps Challenge since 2016. We wait for this two days every year. Spaceapps has been a key occasion of learning and jamming together. we are learning different aspects of Space Science while trying to solve different problems each year.
This year, we have chosen to Solve The Trail to Mars: Can You Keep Your Crew Alive. We have tried to design a video game simulator . We all dreamt to be an astronaut which never came true. We tried to design a game simulation where kids of today can feel and live the roles of an astronaut while passively learning safety measures and actions to keep space crews alive and safe.
We have gone through problems developing the details of gameplay whitin this short time limit. That's why we focused on the game design more. We read resources and tried to design a game which will cover major issues to keep marsnauts alive and safe.
We are grateful to Space Agencies for their shared Data. We learned lots of terms and issues while reading papers and articles related to this field of space science. We are thankful to them.
We used some free assets and UI icons(links and credits are given in Space Agency Data section )
References
Links used :
Traveling to Mars? Top 6 health challenges | Human World
Space Biology Program | Science Mission Directorate
Hazards of Human Spaceflight | Hazard 1: Space Radiation
Horizons mission - Soyuz: launch to orbit
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3RRA-BMh7wLsU7V6gUUSRwH
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22313.jpg
Mark III Spacesuit | 3D Resources
Brain Logo Template and symbols icons app 585566 Vector Art at Vecteezy
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/156378-free-arm-wrestling-vectors
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22313.jpg
https://p0.pxfuel.com/preview/276/874/345/cosmonaut-astronaut-astronomy-science.jpg astronaut
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/next-giant-leap.jpg footstap
https://w7.pngwing.com/pngs/595/635/png-transparent-white-heart-illustration-white-heart-black-pattern-white-heart-love-white-heart.png
Tags
#CrewSafety #Astronaut #Marsnaut #StepOnMars #EducationalGame #AstronautSimulator #KidNauts
Global Judging
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