Awards & Nominations
Eismen has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Finalists Honorable Mentions
Planet X: A Journey to The Unknown
High-Level Project Summary
The Team Eismen created a text-based game that sends an explorer to an unknown planet called Planet X. The goal of this game is to highlight the struggles outside the Earth. With harsh conditions as challenges, we aim to show the users as to how they can solve it using adaptations. This may be somehow fictional, with the health modifications, it showcase what we could possibly face if we were to travel on space. Team Eisemen made this in a way that it would be easy for everyone to understand the challenges of space travelling while showing the possible conditions on habitual exoplanets.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
The Team Eismen decided to join the challenge, "Build a Space Biology Superhero."
We have decided to create a game that solves the challenge, thus, "Planet X: A Journey to The Unknown." The main goal of this game is to show the players the struggles and challenges of space travel. The players are given a chance to modify their character in such a way that it could withstand the challenges posed by the said game. After their character has been modified, it will now undergo some challenges. Hence, it can enhance the player's ability to make some decisions for survival. This also tells us the harsh conditions outside the Earth.
The team utilized an online IDE in developing the program. Replit is an online software used by the team for coding the game. Python was the chosen coding language for the game. Other open-source libraries like "Rich" were also utilized as references in creating the backbone of the game’s scripts.
Space Agency Data
The data that we used was mostly from NASA. The one that we really found helpful was the open data from NASA regarding the five hazards of space flight. We were able to incorporate these to our game, and those were the ones that were included in the challenges.
Hackathon Journey
This is our team's first time in joining this hackathon. It was obviously very challenging, and we only had a short time to prepare. However, the Team Eismen believes that this activity allows us to learn more and enhance our skills in programming and creative thinking.
We chose this specific challenge because we found this challenge very intriguing. We also wanted to make our outcome fun; therefore, we decided to push through in creating a game. The time limit was part of our challenge, and it did make things tough for us. However, our team had skills already that are applicable to this challenge. Therefore, we were able to finish this on time.
We would like to thank Sir Eisen Briones for bringing up this opportunity to us and for your insights.
References
For the Powerpoint presentation:
Arcade Game. Canva Template. Accessed from: https://www.canva.com/
5 Hazards of Human Spaceflight. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, May 8, 2019, https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/5-hazards-of-human-spaceflight.
Textualize, Rich, GitHub repository,
https://github.com/Textualize/rich
Tags
#spaceflight, #spacetravel, #game , #challenge, #exoplanet