High-Level Project Summary
Space explorer is a game created to help understand kids of age 11 - 16 about the James Webb telescope and its functionality. The game first creates an interactive situation for the player to get connected with the game then it teaches them about JWST and lastly it questions them regarding their knowledge. Our game involves teaching about the James Webb telescope through an interesting portal that keeps the player intact with the game! Interesting opportunities await you!
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Space explorer is a game created to help understand kids of age 11 - 16 about the James Webb telescope and its functionality. We understood what the players would want from their viewing point of the game, hence the game begins with a short storyline to make the players understand the need for JWST. In our game, we have created a situation for the player to know WHAT James Webb telescope is. They will do this by firstly getting to know what the JWST is and then they will be redirected to simple questions to answer. While keeping the age bracket in mind, we have created the questions far more simple. This makes the game more interactive as well as easy to learn!
Once the player finishes the storyline he/she will be sent to the lobby which gives access to all the information we have taken from Nasa resources, Once the player is sure that he/she has understood about the James Webb Telescope then they can go for the questions.
Here they will answer a few questions regarding what they have studied. The questions have been made simple because once the questions have been started players can't go back. In the questions we have compared the Images taken from JWST, WISE, and Hubble space telescope.
such as shown below.
Space Agency Data
We Used Data Provided by NASA:
In our game, the entire information is used from Nasa and its blogs about James Webb Telescope. In the information lobby we have created multiple choices which lead to different sectors of the Webb, each describing thoroughly the use and functionality of the Webb.
For example in the blog of NASA about the Webb we took certain articles for better evaluation of the Webb. We obtained it from webb.nasa.gov
For better comprehension of the objectives and goals given to us by Nasa Space apps Challenges, we used images given on the comparison of Hubble and JWST by Nasa in order to make the user more comfortable with the images alongside the information.
Furthermore, we used data from the information provided by the Space apps challenges videos about the working of the Webb. link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1LiMvWJ8dE&t=202s.
In addition to this, we used data provided to us by the Canadian space agency.
Hackathon Journey
This experience was full of stress but it came to a smooth end, we learned a lot from it and it added to the achievements in our life. We have questioned the mysteries of space and galaxies, and their complexities for a long time, and as young minds that inspired us to select this challenge. We learned a lot from the mentors who spoke here and got some beginner coding experience when we were making our game. Our approach was to create an interactive way for people to access and understand James Webb because it is the Future! Obviously, we were facing difficulties but we did not stop and finished our work on time.
References
in our entire project, we used all the material with copyright permissions.
We used most of the animations and character images from the www.canva.com
Other materials such as transitional elements and space rockets were designed by us through the software of adobe illustrator.
Other then this our other images and articles were taken from Nasa only.
Tags
#JWST, #JamesWebb, #Kids, #exploration,