High-Level Project Summary
We made a board game, where you have to assemble the JWST as fast as possible. You can buy parts of JWST with stars (currency in the game), you collect by answering the questions. There are four types of questions - about Earth, Universe, telescope and history, which help you learn about space and the telescope in an entertaining way. While playing the game you find out how JWST is build and how it works. The main goal is for the players to realize how exploring space and our surrounding is important.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
The object of the game is to assemble the James Webb Space Telescope model as fast as possible and send it to the L2 point.
RULES
- Basic rules: The game is played clockwise. Place the game figures on the »START« field. The youngest player starts the game with rolling the dice. Then they move as many fields as they rolled. Your astronaut can move everywhere, but you can't go more than one time on the same field in one move. The player on your left draws a question card with the right colour mark and then asks you a question. They tell you if you answered right or false. If the answer is correct you get as many stars (currency) as the question card says. Then next person is on the move.
- trading rules: Parts of the telescope can be bought with stars you collected. Fields with shoping carts 🛒 are consired as starshops – only there you can spend your stars on parts of model of James Webb Space Telescope.
- question cards: Before every game you mix the question cards. At the start of game you devide the cards based on colour in four stacks with hidden SPECIAL cards. There are five types question cards:
- Earth – these cards contain questions about Earth
- History – these cards contain questions about history of the universe,
- Universe – these cards contain questions about space and solar system,
- Telescope – these cards contain questions about James Webb Space Telescope,
- Other – these cards are special. They need to be hidden between other types of cards and are reward-punishment type. Example: free two stars.
- other rules: Answers containing values are correct if you are wrong by plus/minus ten percent. From Earth to Space you can go only on »rocket field« 🚀, Where launching is payable. When you finish with building your telescope, you have to go to »L2« field. First one who end with assembling James Webb Space Telescope and reached the »L2« field, wins.
Parts of James Webb Space Telescope and game figures are 3D printed.
The game is informative and fun. We have decided to develop exactly board game, because we think that we should spend less time on the internet and more time with our family and friends.
We have used a lot NASA recources for content. The game was created in paint.net, Word, Canva and in other programs. For the demo video we used Wondershare Filmora 11.
Space Agency Data
In our project we mostly used NASA, ESA and CSA's recources mostly for content in question cards and 3D printed models of James Webb Space telescope. We took insiration for questions from space agency's resources and other open data.
Specific details:
- https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models
- https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb
- https://webb.nasa.gov/content/multimedia/images.html
- https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/jwst/
- https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/05/12/seventeen-modes-to-discovery-webbs-final-commissioning-activities/
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/12/1042-Image.html?page=2&keyword=ORION%2520CONSTELLATION&filterUUID=5a370ecc-f605-44dd-8096-125e4e623945
- etc.
Hackathon Journey
Space Apps was an interesting experience. It was very fun and we learned a lot of new information about JWST and space. We chose the Learning through the looking glass challange, because it seemed fun since it included making a game. First we decided what type of a game we wanted, made the designs and started to develop it. We faced some challanges that NASA helped us with. We'd like to thank our professors for help and support, astrophysicist dr. Jure Japelj for feedback and NASA for organizing this contest and giving us all the resources we needed.
References
- https://www.wallpaperflare.com/planet-earth-wallpaper-earth-painting-space-digital-art-space-art-wallpaper-vb/download/1920x1080
- https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/texture-background_1167521.htm#query=metal%20texture&position=0&from_view=keyword
- https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/rocket_770706
- https://stock.adobe.com/ca/images/web-store-shopping-cart-icon-shape-button-internet-shop-buy-logo-symbol-sign-vector-illustration-image-isolated-on-white-background/314850659
- https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
- https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesoljski_teleskop_James_Webb
- https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zemlja
- https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesolje
- https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/main_image_star-forming_region_carina_nircam_final-1280.jpg?itok=9hyNVMwe
- https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5171261
- https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/a-cosmic-tarantula-caught-by-nasa-s-webb
- https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/astro/hst_betelgeuse.jpg
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/06/2050-Image.html?news=true
- https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Optics
- https://webb.nasa.gov/content/observatory/index.html
- https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/05/12/seventeen-modes-to-discovery-webbs-final-commissioning-activities/
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/12/1042-Image.html?page=2&keyword=ORION%2520CONSTELLATION&filterUUID=5a370ecc-f605-44dd-8096-125e4e623945
Tags
#boardgame, #jwst, #space, #spaceappschallenge, #esa, #telescope, #obvservingspace