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Superastronaut

High-Level Project Summary

An interesting board game. We can teach others about the ability of the creatures that have the ability to overcome certain challenges living in space. In the future these abilities might be applied on astronauts in real life. It also helps people to understand the challenges we face if we need to survive in space and the potential solves to it. Other details can be found by the player while they enjoy themselves in the game. This is our hard work for these two days, so we hope everyone can enjoy themselves in this game.

Link to Final Project

https://youtu.be/4X-sf4KUX4I

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hyUKv77AaI-KvdzyqZHi1v7_OBkSvQEZ/view?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

RULES:

It is suitable for 2~4 people to play.
Cards included:
DNA card (used to give ability to astronauts)

Heat resistance> Tardigrade card and Alvinella Pompejana card
Radiation resistance>Amoeba card
Physical damage resistance>Tortoise card and Ironclad Beetle card

Attack card (used to attack others astronauts )

Space shuttle: prevent all disasters but only for astronauts in space
Sun radiation storm: cause radiation to all astronauts in space.
Alien solar beam attack: alien shoot an astronaut in space with heat beam.
Supernova explosion: Huge heat wave attack every astronaut in space.
Meteor strike: bangs an astronaut in space with physical damage.

Astronauts card (used as avatars)
All cards (except astronauts cards ) will be mixed and shuffled then placed at the center of all players.
Every player will have an amount of astronauts:

2 player>5 astronauts per player
3 player>4 astronauts per player
4 player>3 astronauts per player

How to play:

The game starts from the youngest player and take turns in clockwise.
Every player can only do one action each round.
They can either choose to use their card or exchange their whole set of card-in-hand.
If the player was attacked by others, and it has an existed resistance on it, the astronaut will lose the resistance, if not, then the astronaut will have to return to Earth.
The astronaut who returns Earth can keep 1 of the resistance.
Every player should keep their cards-in-hands in 3.

How to win:

The first player who send all of his/her astronauts to space.

Space Agency Data

The data that we found were all used as traits or “resistance” in our game. These data inspired us to take out their traits and change into cards.

https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/water-bears-in-space

So, some examples of sort of extreme environments or conditions that tardigrades can survive include being dried out to the point where they essentially have no water left inside their body or cells; they can be frozen down to just above absolute zero, they can be heated up, in some cases, past the boiling point of water, they can survive thousands of times as much radiation as you or I could; they can go days or weeks with little or no oxygen, and maybe the sort of most remarkable feat that they've been shown to perform is that they can actually survive in the vacuum of outer space. They're the only animal that we know of that can, that can do this, so they're really, they're really quite amazing and unique.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/spaceweather/index.html

We got the idea of sun radiation storm card from here.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=id+asc&search=&condition_1=meteor_shower%3Abody_type

We added the card meteor after reading through this page.

https://history.nasa.gov/shuttlehistory.html

After going through this page, we decided to put the space shuttle as the "invincible" card. To protect our astronauts.

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/supernova/en/

The card supernova explosion is changed to "heat" challenge, after we researched this page.

Hackathon Journey

So unfair. Why other people has about 150+points when we just started go through the course.

Well, we learnt that if we wanted to do a project within 48 hours, it's possible.

Our captain loves biology.

By using board games to make the challenges scientists now face clear to our players.

We did research and refer to other board games. We also had online and physical emergency meetings to test out our games.

I would like to thank NASA and Sarawak Government for giving the opportunity to attend an international activity. It is an fascinating experience for us.