High-Level Project Summary
Our team has developed a game called Build a Space Biology Hero. We build it to show how the biological hero can survive in different environments including space. It is important to show it this way so that more can learn more facts about the biology hero with a fun experience
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
This project is actually a short game where we have a spaceship travel our solar system in search of materials to help with future space explorations. Whenever we land on a planet, our little Tardigrade will help us explore the planet's surface to collect materials. To help it survive better in it's current environment, it will 'evolve' depending on what it collects. This feature was inspired by the Pokemon Eevee and its Evolution Stones which are required for it to be better suited for a certain battle situation. We hope that this would be a fun way to explain or imagine how researchers would experiment with different modifications on fauna or how different environmental changes could effect it.
Space Agency Data
We predominately used data from NASA's own website to explain general facts about the different planets our Spaceship (Platform) lands on. We even learned some cool new facts from the experience. It helped inspired us to figure out what types of evolutions to give our little Tardigrade friend.
Hackathon Journey
Our team would like to say that this was a very fun brainstorming experience for us. We learned how to code in a shorter time and all of us learned how to manage our time so that we can finish the project in time. We choose this project as we can learn about space and the biology hero at the same time. We would like to thank our teacher for helping us when we needed help. We faced challenges like having not enough time but we all tried our best to speed up our work.
References
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/
https://uwaterloo.ca/earth-sciences-museum/resources/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/overview/
Tags
#nasa #space #biology #game #tardigrade #waterbear