Team Quantum

Universal Event | The Trail to Mars: Can You Keep Your Crew Alive

Race to Marz (Team Quantum)

High-Level Project Summary

We designed a educational and challenging game , where the player as astronaut will have to face the challenges like 1)Solar radiation2)Distance from earth3)Isolation.The challenges which we are addressing is important as these are some of the real life issues which astronauts face, and when a player will play this game, they will get to know about new technologies and they can innovate technologies too. And it will also encourage the players to think more which might help in Mars Mission as more people will be willing to invent technologies to reach Mars.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/kA6IJYeY9iE

Link to Final Project

https://www.figma.com/file/SDZ7O338xmhgZLENPmyuQQ/Untitled?node-id=0%3A1

Detailed Project Description

Challenges which we address:

1)Solar radiation-solar flares on their way of which they have to activate their communication with the hazard helpers to know the solution to prevent themselves from solar radiation that is approaching in no time.

2)Distance from earth- one of their crew goes sick but the capsule in which the pills and medical equipments are stored gets blocked, even if it can be opened manually and easily,one part of its mechanism gets blocked which obstructs the whole capsule.

3)Isolation-where the astronuts feel bored from doing the same activity for almost more than a year, thus wanted to try something different and new ,hence they explored and found out different equipments (So one of the astronauts was talking with the Earth Space unit, and got to know that there was some treasure hunt hidden for them as a surprise, and they started solving the riddles and some of their time was spent in the treasure hunt and after that they found some interesting equipments like VR, guitar robot, camera etc to spend their time in...)

The kid astronaut(the mascot), explaining, the particular situation in a deeper way, makes it educational. The challenges are shown are created from the researches by our members, resource, and information from NASA, finally by our idea, which we merged in the form of graphical art.

It will help to develop the visual thinking of the players, help them learn about new technologies, space, and their functions also it will encourage more individuals to think new and innovate which might be useful for future long missions, like the mars mission, and develop the field in the space sector.

Space Agency Data

Resources and Data:

Some articles and videos from the NASA resources like-

1)NASA gene lab data- found out how is a human body is impacted from different situation in space ship.

2)Can you keep your crew alive challenge video

3) 5 hazards of spaceflight by NASA Human Research Program

4) The effects of Space Radiation

And some external datas from other sites...

We used these datas by formulating it on our whole project and story board.

We found these important, because it some of the most dangerous and common problems faced by astronauts.

Hackathon Journey

It was wonderful journey, where both of us got to learn many new things not only about space and technology but also about story formatting, designing and creating a game.

We enjoyed working on this project but sometimes it became difficult for us to complete the project due to the work load, as it was our first experience of working for so long hours and continuosly for 2 days, as school students it was little difficult to work for so long but the determination of both of us made it happen, we completed the project successfully with our hard work and we hope to give our best.

We approached to address these problems because it really inspired us as we believe that health is very important and we also need to encourage people to innovate new, so we decided to take these challenges.

References

Tools:

Figma for story board

3d paint for designing

Canva for demo