High-Level Project Summary
This project is a game about the Parker Solar Probe – The spacecraft travels directly through the Sun's atmosphere. Player will control the probe and earn reward as the Sun's latest image in a card after orbit around the sun for specified times, the rewarded images also have information from NASA website.Beginning with modeling the sun, planets and spacecraft, then we find the orbit routes from physics system and apply to code. However, finding the routes and making game's camera follow the probe and point to the sun at the same time is not that simple but we manage to get the "top view" for prototype.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
This project is developed under Unity with C# and aim to make everyone learns end enjoys with a game that let player control Parker Solar Probe to orbit around the Sun to obtain information related to the solar effect. If mission is success, they will earn the card reward that show information and the latest image measured in different wavelength from actual Parker Solar Probe. So players can learn and have fun at the same time.
The project goal is to simplify how to Solar Probe orbit around the sun with and give them information of this mission and fun fact about it and the Sun. With a simple game which people can involve with, they will be more interested to the Solar Probe and know more about the Sun.
Here're Example if our game finished
Space Agency Data
From the data we received, we decided to make the game because it is the easy way to learn and reach information as we can show them how NASA gets images from the Sun and give them information after their missions are success.
Hackathon Journey
From this project, we've learned about the how NASA obtain information from the Sun which is related to solar effects and we also explore the process of making a game in unfamiliar programming language. At first, we decide to study Unity and split task into small tasks and brainstorm to solve the problems we face in each phase.
Lastly, we would like to thank Mr.Pongsakorn our team leader who invited all members to join this event and NASA for giving us such a great opportunity to explore new things and expand our knowledge.
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Tags
#game, #ParkerSolarProbe, #coding #AmericanoLessSugar #nasaSpaceAppChallenge2022