Beyond-ing the Stars

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sorry unable to upload here so its in the link to final project

1)Introduction and Objective of Game:

Mathematics, Science, Languages and Arts are one of the fundamental subjects taught to students since elementary school. Due to the vast syllabus required to be covered, students may not have the time to delve into other subjects, one of them being astronomy. Hence, THIS is an educational game created in order to let people know more about the wonderful capabilities of NASA's largest and most powerful space science telescope, and also spark the interests of primarily, but not limited to, students, to empower their knowledge about the mystic space and bring inspiration for career pursue in the field of astronomy, astronautics and space technology. It is created in the form of a board game, instead of a mobile application, so that it can be easily available and played, whether at home or in school where mobile phones may not be accessible. Thus, its template can be downloaded and printed by teachers for schools where mobile phones are not allowed, or even, readily created last minute with basic stationery and papers.

2)Game Mechanics:

Tools

1)Space Budget(money that can be obtained from spinning the wheel and can be used to buy mission card)

2)Mini JWST board

3)Mission cards

4)Space Map(to be continued)

In this game, players can play the game individually or as opposing teams. However, the main objective of the game is to win as a solo, by obtaining the highest point. Regardless of winning or not, players can record their scores down. This is because the final victory is awarded to the final player with the highest score among each rounds played. Thus, this also means that the final winner is always temporary, as the highest score obtained is not limited to the current players, it can be someone from the school, neighborhood, or even worldwide.

Main instructions: Spin the wheel to spin for mission and space budget,complete missions and draw an infinity sign on the board and get the highest score to win !

Instructions:

Power the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

before its launch for a space voyage by installing one of its instrument, the

Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onto the telescope through completing the

"Mini JWST" board individually. The points awarded for each player

who are successful will differ in each game round, affected by the number of

players.For solo players, the points awarded will be 3500 points. As for team

players, the points awarded will be in decreasing multiples of 1000 according

to the number of players, with the highest awarded to the player who won in the

shortest time. For example, if there is 10 players in the game but with only 6

completing the "Mini JWST" board, a total of 21000

points(6000+5000+4000+3000+2000+1000) will be awarded to the players. The

player awarded the highest point(6000) will be the one who completed the board

first, 5000 for the second,4000 for the third and so on.This applies to other

number of players, for another instance, a round of game with 15 winning

players, then the points awarded will be 120000(15000+14000+13000....) and with

the highest scoring player(completed in the shortest time) being 15000 points

and the last winner(completed the game the last) scoring 1000 points.

Setting of the game: Avatars created by players themselves are set on a map (galaxy board).

To win the Mini "JWST" 10x10 board:

Introduction:

Along the game, there will be mission cards obtained as players proceed through the map. These mission cards are key elements in completing the Mini "JWST" board. Each mission card have different numbers on them. The numbers on the mission card will correspond to the numbered blocks that are numbered from 1-100 on the Mini “JWST” board.

How to win?

Player will win by completing an infinity sign (resembling the shape of the mirrors of a normal telescope) in the easiest way which takes the least time.The infinity signs can be of any orientations, successful as long as they are interconnected and all the missions corresponding to the numbers touching the infinity signs are filled. (examples of possible orientations are shown in the picture found in the 7-slides )

Types of Mission in Game:

1)Real life( some only for team players):

This type of mission are private missions given to complete as a team and individually as well. These missions are to be completed with real life actions such as pressing the shoulder of the opponent team member without being questioned by the opponent whether if it was one’s mission, texting a friend and receiving a reply within 3 minutes or answering the correct answer for the questions asked on the mission card).If a player plays individually and gets the mission for team players, they can exchange it for another solo mission.

2)Missions in the form Space Budget:

These mission cards are also numbered and correspond the blocks on the “Mini JWST” Telescope. For this type of mission, players can just complete the mission by having sufficient “Space Budget” and exchanging it.

3)Undercover Mission(only for team players with at least 3 players in each team):

There is a total of 8 of such Mission card in the game. The player will be assigned their ‘undercover’ mission, that is to perform the mission secretly, if they were given the mission card during the game. Thus, there is a possibility that there is no undercover player in a game round as no one drew the ‘undercover’ mission. At the end of each game(team games with minimum 3 players in each team), players will have to vote for the ‘undercover’ player. In the case where there is an undercover player, and undercover player is correctly voted, every player who voted correctly(not including the undercover) gets 6000 points, whereas if the undercover player does not get voted correctly, the undercover gets awarded 8000 points for successfully being ‘undercover’. The final decision of the vote for ‘undercover’ is not based on majority, but individual votes. In the case where the ‘undercover’ is voted wrongly or when there is no player having a ‘undercover’ mission in the game, every player who did the voting will have 3000 points deducted from their account. Thus, players have the rights to choose if they want to vote for the undercover(in which if they voted correctly they get 6000 points and if not, a deduction of 3000 points) or withdraw(not voting, and thus not get awarded or deducted any points in both presence or absence of an ‘undercover’ player)

Background of game: Upon landing on the

chosen map where all mission takes place, players work their best to complete

the "10x10" board by completing missions.

Image and date source:

https://2022.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/2022-challenges/through-the-looking-glass/resources

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-sheds-light-on-galaxy-evolution-black-holes

My space app experience was engaging beyond fun.Not only did I learnt so much interesting and wonderful knowledge that I doubt I will ever google for more information if I did not get introduced to them by attending the workshops in the first place. Thus, I would love to express my gratitude towards Teacher Teo, Miss Sharon, Miss Lunnie,Mr Melvin, each of the facilitators of the Space App Sarawak, for making all the great workshops possible with their tremendous efforts as well as the generousity in putting in all their thoughts and times for ensuring all of us in being awarded the points for merchandises.I would also love to thank the speakers from Champs Education Miri, Mr Svylster and Sebestian Tan for the amazing Storytelling with Impact Workshop which were not only extremely funny but provided me with a lot of tips that is not limited to being useful for the hackathon pitch but in my future undertakings as well.Despite not having any exposure to game design or taken any courses related with computer science before, I have also managed to learnt a lot from this field through attending the extremely engaging and interesting Game Design Workshop by Mr Aaron as well as the extremely detailed Game Prototype workshop on using Scratch as a platform to create a game.Despite missing some of the workshops, all of the workshops I have attended has empowered my knowledge in many fields and not missing the fun in the process.I would also love to thank Dr Tun for the amazing talk during the opening ceremony which had really sparked my interest on the wonders of JWST telescope anf made me determined to hope to be able to create an interesting game for more to know about this telescope 

As for the inspiration of the games, I would like to thank the developer of the Game of Life and the creator of the game of Tic Tac Toe for helping me with the ideas and development of my board game.

Finally, I would like to thank the NASA Space Challenge and the other partner space agencies, space workers as well as all space enthusiasists for making this challenge that gathers everyone in the world to try help solve real life world problems, which allows us to learn lots of new knowledge in terms of different aspects and gain more STEAM skills in the process. It is a really precious and wonderful experience to know that many parts of the world are all coming together to solve the 22 challeges and such experiwnce will always be one that I will cherish for a lifetime. Thank You so much to everyone for making the 2022 Global Hackathon, and I anticipate to participate again in the 2023 Global Hackathon !

Image and date source:

https://2022.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/2022-challenges/through-the-looking-glass/resources

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-sheds-light-on-galaxy-evolution-black-holes

#create our future,in space,hand in hands