High-Level Project Summary
We developed a idea for a game and made a pre-alpha and it does not yet solve the challenge.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
Although the game is far from being finished, we are using Unity for game design and using the website dinopixel.com to create sprites for the assets. The game plans to have the player keep 4 crewmates alive and healthy as they travel from the Earth to Mars, make a stop there, and comeback. The current idea is to have the player choose where each member of the crew work on one of the seven rooms making it where you have to make risky decisions, the control room will always have to be occupied which means the player will have three crewmates for six rooms.
Space Agency Data
https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/bodyinspace
Hackathon Journey
Our journey has been rough, because of the name of the challenge “The Trail to Mars” we originally made the game based on “The Oregon Trail”. Although we plan on it having a similar journey style and time system, we took inspiration from other games too such as “Sheltered”. I use the word plan because the game will not be finished by the deadline, we are still early in development and just finished a pre alpha build which shows the potential. Time scheduling and people getting sick has set us back farther than we would like. After the app challenge is submitted, we hopefully plan to work on it until it is finished and playable.
References
Unity (for making the game)
https://www.visitoregon.com/the-oregon-trail-game-online/ (for reference)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheltered_(video_game) (for reference)
https://dinopixel.com/ (for making sprites)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTL:_Faster_Than_Light (for room mechanic reference)
Tags
#game #spaceTravel #unity #wip
Global Judging
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