InfinityWolf

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When you open and click on START, you will enter another menu where you can choose the exploring area that you want through JWST.

The exploring areas are determined by the distance away from the earth in the light-year unit. So there are three areas you can explore where area within 5 billion years, 5 to 11 billion years, and more than 11 billion years. In each area, there are galaxies waiting for you to be explored.

After choosing to explore the area you wanted, you can see a lot of regions that you can further explore and get a space image of that region.

However, you need to play and win the mini-game before you can get the image. Here are two mini-games:

• Escape the spiral galaxy

Our littlealien friends are trapped inside the spiral galaxy. Help them escape it by flying UFO and you may be rewarded with an amazing gift. In your journey, you may encounter various situations, and overcome them by using your own skill. Be sure to make use of everything wisely in your journey. Good luck, and most importantly, HAVE FUN!

Rules:

1. Control the UFO to escape the spiral galaxy.

2. UFOs have fuels that can let you move, but they may run out. Try to look for refills throughout your journey.

3. There are planets with different gravity. You may use them to help you move in the galaxy.

4. Beware of space debris. If the UFO hit one of them, you have to restart your journey. Avoid it or the aliens may be stuck in the spiral galaxy FOREVER.

5. Poisonous gas exists in the spiral galaxy. It wouldn’t kill you, it will let you lose consciousness instead. During that time, the UFO will be out of control and move randomly. You may find it helpful sometimes, who knows?

6. There are wormholes that allow the UFO to move from one point to another in a blink of eye. Where does it take you to? Who knows? Make full use of it to help the aliens escape the spiral galaxy.

• Nebular Maze

By using your bright mind, help the alien kid to find the way out from the nebula maze within one minute. Nebula maze is full of cloud that you can only see some meteors which can give you clue about the way out of the maze. There are some gases in the maze that provide you with special skills like the power to break the wall to find short cur or gain extra speed. With the JWST, you can find these gases easily through Near-Infrared Spectrograph. 

After you win the mini-game, you can access the image of the respective region. It could be a galaxy, nebula, meteor, or image of a group of exoplanets taken by the JWST. On the image, there are several things you could do:

1.You can get the image's background information by clicking on this button

2.You can access the image taken by other telescopes such as humble, WISE, etc.

3. You can compare the JWST image with other telescopes' images.

4.You can exit the image by clicking on this button

What benefits does it have?

Playing Eyes on Universe can allow children to absorb important information about JWST through entertainment. In the game, there are fun and interesting mini-games that are educational and informative. The main reason we created this game is that we want to induce passion in astronomy and cosmology among young people, and why not, be part in the next more advanced telescope creation?

What do you hope to achieve?

The game is specially designed in 3D to give the best game visual experience to the player, and we hope, with this advantage, we can attract more youngsters’ interests to generate a greater impact. We hope our game can act as a platform to let more people understand the power of JWST and generate more potential people involved in the field of astronomy.

What tools, coding languages, hardware, or software did you use to develop your project?

We developed our game with Unity. Blender was used to design our models in the game. Photoshop was used to create some UI images and pictures used in the game. Our demo video was made using Inshot(an Android application from Play store).

NASA blogs about JWST

We used the data that NASA offers regarding the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) as one of the fundamental ideas to create our mini-game.

Image Galleries Webb/NASA

As the reference to make the low poly JWST model.

CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY (CSA) and NASA blogs about JWST

Detailed information regarding images from space taken by JWST. We used them in the game to give extra info to those who want to know the background of specific images.

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA)

 I used the JWST launching video in creating my demo video.

Space app provides us a golden opportunity to realize our space’s dream by sharing our ideas and solutions to induce the youngsters’ interest in exploring space using the latest technology. My team and I appreciate that we got a great experience from the participant of Space App. Teamwork, communication, and time management are valuable soft skills that we have learned, not to say the professional knowledge about the universe and JWST gained through game development. The most advanced telescope, amazing space images, and its investigation across the fields of astronomy and cosmology inspired us to carry the challenge to let more people know about the power of JWST. Our approach is to create a 3D game that is fun to play and most importantly informative for kids. Whenever we encountered setbacks and challenges, we work together to overcome them. We possess the faith that all difficulties can be overcome if we are in a team.

Reference Data

• https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2021/09/James_Webb_Space_Telescope/Webb_MIRI_imaging-mode_animation
• https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/jwst/news.asp#20220712
• https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/
• https://webb.nasa.gov/content/multimedia/images.html
• https://webb.nasa.gov/content/multimedia/images.html

Download Images

• https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images
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