High-Level Project Summary
We have faced the challenged "Build a Space Biology Superhero". This game consists on a superhero, Dr. Space, who is a biocyborg that can manipulate her own DNA in order to adapt her body to extreme environments. She is on an odyssey through the universe and she will face many dangers such as horrific aliens, heavy gravity and lethal radiation, that will challenge her.This experience will show how space conditions affect humans, or well, biocyborgs in this case, and different adaptations that will be required to complete this adventure successfully.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
We have developed this project with Unity, a graphic engine that uses C# on the inside. The videogame is a classic platform game in which the main character has to pass different levels.
It is a really intuitive game and in order to make it clearer, the context and some features of the game are explained on the game itself.
What we hope to achieve is to make awareness of how difficult is to travel in the space due to the hardships that it has.
Space Agency Data
We have been heavily inspired by a NASA articled called "5 Hazards of Human Spaceflight" to create this project. However, we have completed our investigation with several scientific papers, every bibliographic reference is on the presentation. Besides, some background photos used in the levels belongs to the NASA too.
Hackathon Journey
It was very self-rewarding. We have learnt how to work as a team with people that we did not know before, and also to make a project in a very little time! As non soft-skills, we have read a lot about space traveling and its difficulties.
References
We have used, as I have said before, the graphical engine Unity and text from scientific articles. This is the bibliography used:
Danko, D., Malli Mohan, G.B., Sierra, M.A., Rucker, M., Singh, N.K., Regberg, A.B., Bell, M.S., O’Hara, N.B., Ounit, R., Mason, C.E. and Venkateswaran, K. (2021). Characterization of Spacesuit Associated Microbial Communities and Their Implications for NASA Missions. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.608478.
Biomaterials for Human Space Exploration: A Review of Their Untapped Potential. (2021). Acta Biomaterialia [online] doi:10.1016/j.actbio.2021.04.033.
Vasileiou, T. and Summerer, L. (2021). Correction: A biomimetic approach to shielding from ionizing radiation: The case of melanized fungi. PLOS ONE, 16(8), p.e0257068. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0257068.
Whiting, M. and Abadie, L. (2019). 5 Hazards of Human Spaceflight. [online] NASA. Available at: https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/5-hazards-of-human-spaceflight.
science.nasa.gov. (n.d.). Cell Science-04 (CS-04) | Science Mission Directorate. [online] Available at: https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/investigations/cell-science-04...
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owners.
all the images have been obtained searching in google.
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#software, #buildspacebiologysuperhero