High-Level Project Summary
We have developed an educational game for people. This game makes it fun for people to learn about variable stars. With the text and animations in the educational game we have made, we have helped people learn about variable stars. We want people to understand that stars are not just a luminous celestial body, but that they live for millions or even billions of years,We tried to explain how they are born, live and die, so that people can be more knowledgeable about the stars, and we tried to do it in a fun way.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
We have enabled people to learn about the stars in an educational and instructive way. People can access our game from their windows computers on the .exe extension file we created. People now have more information about the stars. We aimed for people to have more information about the stars through a game without getting bored and to have fun doing it. We developed the project on the Unity 2D platform. We did it using C# software language. We also used free .png, free music, youtube etc. sites.
Space Agency Data
We used Nasa's articles about Cepheid variables, and we also used Nasa's YouTube channel.
Hackathon Journey
It was exciting to participate in a worldwide competition and my team and I tried to do our best in this competition. We got more information about our topic, the stars. What motivates us is to make it easier and more fun for people to access information that they don't have. We tried to overcome the problems by researching more and getting ideas from our environment. First of all, we thank Nasa for organizing such a competition. We would also like to thank the Elazıg Municipality for providing us with a place to work more comfortably and to everyone who helped us throughout the competition.
References
https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/cepheids.html#:~:text=Cepheids%2C%20also%20called%20Cepheid%20Variables,of%20millions%20of%20light%2Dyears.&text=a%20uniform%20function%20of%20their%20brightness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepheid_variable
https://havacilikveuzay.blog/2016/10/12/cepheid-degisken-yildizlari-cepheid-variables/
https://www.kozmikanafor.com/degisken-yildizlar-orten-ciftler-cepheid-degiskenleri/
https://www.kozmikanafor.com/yildizlarin-olumu-2-beyaz-cuce/
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/characters/warped-caves-103250
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/characters/free-pixel-space-platform-pack-146318
Tags
#Hardware, #Game, #Education