High-Level Project Summary
We have developed a game, named *SPACE SCOPY* with the help of Scratch. It helps youngster who are interested in space to learn more about the JWST in a fun way. It does not require you to be REAL professional to play the game. The game is suitable for those who have zero idea about the JWST, especially kids. Apart from gaining new knowledge or fun facts about JWST, our game also brings EXCITEMENT and ENTERTAINMENT to the players. Having said that, the game actually helps those who don't like the act of reading (even if the topic interests them) to learn and know more about space. Learning does not necessarily take place through reading. Reading can learn, playing game can learn too!
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Space Scopy is a simple and easy game. The player needs to get out of the maze. In the journey, there are challenges (simple questions) for them to overcome. If they manage to get the right answer, they are able to earn some points. Otherwise their points will be deducted. Once the points deducted to zero, they are said to lose .Game over.
Fun learning! We hope to encourage more people to grow interest towards the space, especially youngster.
Speaking of tool or coding languages, we only use Scratch to develop the project!
Here is the intro:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xaNQso_raHIvuvxyZ64M8FUoowDgT0al/view?usp=sharing
Space Agency Data
We used some open data from NASA in our game. More specifically, we used the pictures in some of the background scene and also in the question we set to the players.
Hackathon Journey
We choose this challenge for only one reason. We too, love JWST. Look at those pictures captured by it, so awesome!
To be honest, we have mixed feelings for our hackathon journey since none of us has any experience in coding before. We are so-called newbie. So, facing struggle and clumsy is inevitable. We had no clue at all when we first started. Frankly speaking, we actually came to a point that we wanted to give up. Desperate and hopeless. However, thanks to my teammates, we are able to get through all difficulties by helping each other. Second, thanks to Youtube. Coping with technical issues, we reach out to Youtube for guidance in our coding process. The outcome might not be satisfying, but the efforts we have put in is definitely , absolutely, undoubtedly laudable.
References
Link About How To Make A Maze
https://youtu.be/Zu9Cn6wahvU
https://www.mazegenerator.net/
James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
Tags
#space,#telescope,#JWST,#game,iDream