High-Level Project Summary
Our group has developed a short simulator on taking photos of famous constellations and nebulas. The players starts with taking and collecting pictures with the Hubble Telescope. After a certain amount of pictures, the players will be granted the use of the James Webb Space Telescope and take higher resolution pictures. We thought this was a good solve as despite it being not representative of what really happens, it is something fun and will ignite a spark of interest within the player's mind.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
As said in the summary, this is not a game with the goal to provide the realistic telescope experience. However, we do have the goal of letting people see the amazingness of space and have the feeling of taking the photos themselves, with the ability to see how the different telescopes affect the project. We have used Scratch for this project. None of us are well versed enough with any coding language to accomplish something playable within the two days given but our main goal of this project is to show our concept.
Space Agency Data
We have used images for the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope from the NASA database.
Hackathon Journey
We were noticed of this project when one of our friends and group member notified us of it. We thought that it was extremely interesting and since some of us already has an interest in space, we thought it would be a fun challenge. We are not the most versed with coding (hence why we are making the game on Scratch). One of our main challenges were time management as our vastly different time zones and school schedules but we just tried our best.
References
https://mast.stsci.edu/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/index.html
https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
Programming Tool: Scratch
Tags
#game #demo #hubble #jwst