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Space Knight

High-Level Project Summary

'Space Knight' is a 2D game that allows player to become a human that can obtain ability, which is AKA biological features of other organisms to complete mission in outer space. As we know, there is a lot of environmental stresses that we need to overcome during the space travel. Therefore, it is important that more and more people can learn about the environmental stress of space travel so that more people will be interested to space exploration and contribute by conducting biological research for the future missions. Our game also able to teach player information about how varies of organism can withstand these environmental stress. Example: Zebrafish, Tardigrade, Arabidopsis thaliana, etc

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18GLettiP-GTMo81UY0FL4DrKHKUN9ROl?usp=sharing

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6JKZZCH2e0&feature=youtu.be

Detailed Project Description

https://youtu.be/Gw9ooWOtSSA (Detailed Presentation Video)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WA7yjt3M-EM1l4VdtzNMrCMKe3jk0YEj (Google drive folder that contains both detailed presentation video and pitch video)

In-game Stage Section

Game is always important to be fun so that player can play it without feeling too bored compared to studying in school. Therefore we have designed it with fun mechanism and interesting user interface.

Ability Section

Inside the game, we can look over the ability section.

These abilities are all the biological features that some organism have, with this, player is able to learn how the varies organism are able to adapt with the outer space environment.

Database Section

In the database part of the game, player can obtain many information about the organism with fascinating biological features.

Different from the usual way, many people usually learn things through school or books. But nowadays, we have a lot of other options to obtain knowledge. One of it is through game, although many people would think that game would make people addicted to it and gives negative impact, we think that this could be overcame if we make good use of game as an educational tool. With game, it allows people to learn something during the process of playing, this method is really great because playing games can create an immersive experience. Therefore, we hope this game can become a game which only not to be fun. but also educational and help in contributing for future outer space mission.

How to Download the Game

Download all the files as zipped file in google drive first and extract it into a folder.

the application (.exe) file is the game that we need to open and play

Space Agency Data

https://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/risks/

We have obtained a lot of information about the environmental stresses of space travel from this website and we have implemented these environmental stress in our game as the challenges that player will face and have to be overcame during every stage of the game.

And these are the data for the organism that we have implemented in our game as the original model of the ability to counter the environmental stress of space travel. When looking through these information, we were inspired to make a game related to the biological features of these organism which became the 'ability' in our game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_flies_in_space (Fruit fly)

https://www.dw.com/en/space-mice-nasas-rodent-astronauts/a-48502935#:~:text=NASA%20has%20sent%20mice%20to,trips%20like%20voyages%20to%20Mars (Mice)

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/space_spiders_live.html (Golden orb spider)

https://www.qub.ac.uk/Research/feature/zebrafish-could-help-humans-reach-mars/ (Zebrafish)

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018cosp...42E.621C/abstract (Zebrafish)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebrafish#Bone_physiology_and_pathology (Zebrafish)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade (Tardigrade)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabidopsis_thaliana (Arabidopsis thaliana)

Hackathon Journey

During these two days, we have learned a lot about space, especially about the environmental stresses during space travel. It was a wonderful experience for us and we think this knowledge will definitely help us in the future. We are very happy because we are able to participate again in the NASA Space Apps Challenge, which was really fun.