Awards & Nominations
TIP warriors has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
Telescope Hunter
High-Level Project Summary
One of the telescopes that has made a crucial contribution to space exploration is the James Webb Space Telescope. Therefore, our game provides a fun and intuitive way of learning the components and functionalities of the James Webb Space Telescope. Similar to the work of space explorers, the concept of our game is for players to find hidden space telescopes in deep space. They are presented with two-dimensional coordinates of the parts of the telescope and other space telescopes in order to guide them. It is filled with colorful and attractive digital art to entice players. Hence, our game provides an intuitive and fun way of learning the components and functionalities of the telescope.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
The team has created a game that aims to give additional Knowledge about the parts of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as well as give additional knowledge to some other space telescopes that were built prior to JWST. Using movement keys (W, A, S, D), the player inside the ship can travel around space, and find all the parts of the JWST that was scattered all around. Once found, the player will be given knowledge as to what part of JWST has been found, and what it does. Additionally, there are also some space telescopes that the player can interact with, and it will give them knowledge about that specific Space Telescope, as well as some images that were taken with that specific Space Telescope. Lastly after all the parts were found, The player will be given information about the JWST as a whole, and compare its images with some of its predecessors. The team made the game with the use of Unity Game Engine, as well as C# Programming. The game was built as an executable file (.exe) which makes it accessible only on Windows systems.
Space Agency Data
Most of the data or images were gathered from the open data of NASA. For the images of each part of the James Webb Telescope, we used image editing softwares to extract the parts’ images. In addition, we used other open data from different sources such as news websites to extract information about other telescopes for comparison to the James Webb Telescope. The open data from NASA inspired us to build an interactive game wherein users find each component of the James Webb Telescope.
Hackathon Journey
Joining the Spaces Apps challenge provides us with a whole new experience. We learned to collaborate for the first time, and the collaboration went well. It sped up the production of our Space App game. The thought of making a game in two days inspired the team. It's an achievement for us who have little to no experience in making a game to tackle such a difficult journey. We used the famous Unity game engine to make "Telescope Hunter," even though most of the members of the team have little to no experience in using Unity. Despite that, we managed to pull through and finish "Telescope Hunter" in two days. Finally, we would like to thank ourselves for pulling through this challenge, and we appreciate that we have been provided with an opportunity to test our skills.
References
“James Webb Space Telescope: Launch date, Size and mission goals: Bbc science focus magazine,” James Webb Space Telescope: launch date, size and mission goals | BBC Science Focus Magazine. [Online]. Available: https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/james-webb-space-telescope/. [Accessed: 02-Oct-2022].
“The Sunshield Webb/NASA,” NASA. [Online]. Available: https://webb.nasa.gov/content/observatory/sunshield.html. [Accessed: 02-Oct-2022].
M. W. B. joining P. Mechanics, “Every image from the James Webb Space Telescope (so far),” Popular Mechanics, 29-Sep-2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/g40810724/webb-telescope-images-gallery/?slide=3. [Accessed: 02-Oct-2022].
“Soho,” The Sun Today with Dr. C. Alex Young, 19-Dec-2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.thesuntoday.org/missions/soho/. [Accessed: 02-Oct-2022].
“Images,” HubbleSite.org. [Online]. Available: https://hubblesite.org/resource-gallery/images. [Accessed: 02-Oct-2022].
ABC News. [Online]. Available: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/hubble-james-webb-telescope-images-difference/story?id=86763039. [Accessed: 02-Oct-2022].
“Backplane Webb/NASA,” NASA. [Online]. Available: https://webb.nasa.gov/content/observatory/ote/backplane.html#:~:text=The%20backplane%20is%20the%20spine,hexagonal%20mirrors%20of%20the%20telescope. https://www.space.com/best-hubble-space-telescope-images.html. [Accessed: 02-Oct-2022].
B. Dunbar, “Have telescopes changed our view of the universe?,” NASA. [Online]. Available: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/education/telescopes-20100405.html. [Accessed: 02-Oct-2022].
Image sources for image taken by the telescopes
https://phys.org/news/2009-11-fermi-telescope-gamma-ray-star-factories.html
https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/gamma-ray-high-energy/981/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/513/10-things-spitzer-space-telescope/
https://www.treehugger.com/images-from-nasas-spitzer-telescope-4869202
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/images/index.html
https://www.npr.org/2011/01/11/132811291/kepler-space-telescope-spots-its-first-rocky-planet
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-we-just-find-exoplanets-in-another-galaxy/
Tags
#Unity, #Game, #NASA, #JamesWebb, #JWST, #Space, #Telescope, #Knowledge, #Exploration, #Puzzle