High-Level Project Summary
Our product consists of a game that seeks to provide entertainment for users while they learn new concepts and curiosities about astronomy. We seek to solve a major problem through this product, which is the difficulty that young people have to understand technical and scientific language, with this we can be intermediaries between these two realities to make this knowledge accessible and in a fun way.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Our project is a game that tells the story of the Parker probe in a fun and didactic way, which seeks to be the bridge between scientific knowledge and the young audience and facilitator of the dissemination of this type of knowledge. In this way, the game is an executable for Windows developed entirely with Python with the help of the Pygame game library. And with it we hope that it fulfills the proposal to serve as an intermediary tool between the two worlds (young lay public and scientific environment), in addition, we intend to expand the game's portfolio with new phases with themes from other NASA missions, enable multiplayer and to structure a game platform with the theme of historical astronomical feats.
Space Agency Data
We used NASA data on Parker Solar Probe through the website: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe and mainly from the blog: https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/
They were very important for the consolidation of our project because they are data from true sources and that will be replicated in a playful teaching format through our proposal in a totally reliable way.
Reliably bringing science to everyone.
Hackathon Journey
Despite some problems faced in our region, it was an incredible experience, we managed to achieve a good synergy in production, we brought together diverse knowledge and learned from each other during the 3 days of the event. We were drawn to each challenge, and we especially fell in love with the Parker Solar Probe that was chosen by us. We were likely to think about society's problems and reflect on solutions to improve our world in some way. In this way, the entire team worked incessantly until the last minutes, fulfilling all the tasks assigned to each one. We have a lot to thank the mentors and organizers who gave us all the support we needed so we could compete.
References
List of resources used in the project:
Images :
-Canva image resources
-Images from pngwing website (https://www.pngwing.com/pt)
-Image creation AI (Midjourney)
-Pixel art of the character (https://www.pixilart.com/draw)
Text editors, programming languages and libraries:
-I aim
-Visual Studio Code
-Python
-Pygame
-Pyinstaller
-you
-sys
-team
Code snippets:
-Code Scape game (https://github.com/C0D8/Code-Scape)
- Template website for the landing page (https://codepen.io)
Tags
#game #sun #parkersolarprobe #teaching