High-Level Project Summary
James Webb Mission is a game that introduce James Webb Space Telescope's capabilities and it's pieces. Players can learn too much things through the game via it's storyline. Also they can enjoy while learning things about James Webb Space Telescope. The game has sincere conversations between the main character Eagle and his AI (Artificial Intelligence) friend.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
How does the game work?
The player leads our main character ‘Eagle’ and his aim is to rescue the lost pieces of James Webb Space Telescope and to rebuilt it. While making his mission completed, he is going to fight to space pirates, escape from cameras, do some parkour, solve some puzzles and more. And he isn’t alone, he have an AI (Artificial Intelligence) near him which helping him giving information about the telescope and its pieces, even making him crazy sometimes.
Levels
There are 5 levels that each one has different difficulties, different enemies init. Some of them take place in space pirates’ spaceship, in their planet and in space. There are a lot of fun in the game with parkour type, arcade type, puzzle type levels.
Mini games
The game has mini games almost in each level’s ends. Even some levels are just made of puzzle. This means that the player is going to have so much fun while playing the game.
Design
We have used a simple design because of some reasons. We’ve wanted sweet, simple, compatible and easy designable format. And we’ve had to complete the design in limited time. So we couldn’t pay enough attention on design and mechanic side.
Storyline
James Webb Space Telescope is stolen by some ‘space pirates’. Pirates divide the telescope into pieces and hide them different places. The main character ‘Eagle’s mission is to find pieces and to rebuilt the telescope. But he is a little combative and sincere, he doesn’t keep his word. Through the game, an AI giving information about the telescope and his mission. There is a different conversation between Eagle and the AI. Eagle makes fun of everything and the AI normally understanding him seriously.
Benefits
We made a game giving information about James Webb Space Telescope. But we wanted to make it not a dull game. So we add a funny main character and some argue with his AI friend. This made the game interesting. In the end, a funny and information fully game is created. So players can have information while playing and enjoying.
Achievement hope
We hope to transfer to the player what we want to. We made it in a sincere way. And we hope the game to attract attention.
Coding, graphics, music
We coded all the game and designed almost all assets by ourselves. We use c# with Unity to code the game and we designed assets using Adobe Illustrator on PC and Infinite Painter on mobile. We used free music archive of YouTube Studio.
About the team
Our team ‘Aquila’ is a new born team. We have 6 members all from high school.
Space Agency Data
We used some data about James Webb Space Telescope and it's missions from NASA's website. Links are available in references part.
Hackathon Journey
This was our first hackathon experience as a group also as members. And we worked as group for making a game in limited time for first. It was very challenging and it was better than we hope for a first time experience. This event has given us a lot. Especially for working as groups. We’ve learned a lot about group work, work sharing and coping with problems. Specific in the field that we worked, we learned so many information that we haven’t ever known about James Webb Space Telescope, also making learning funnier and easier. In summery it was definitely a good challenge, a good experience for us.
References
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
https://astroturk.net/james-webb-uzay-teleskobu/
https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html#partners
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/launch.html
https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/sunshield.html
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html
https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/astronaut-space-vector_3120612.htm#query=astronaut&position=11&from_view=author
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-secondary-mirror-installed
Tags
#game #jameswebb #telescope #art #2d #samsun #turkiye

