Back Space| 1UP for NASA Earth
Project Details
Awards & Nominations
Back Space has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
The Challenge | 1UP for NASA Earth
Your challenge is to create a new video game that uses NASA Earth data, providing players a novel way to interact and have fun with NASA Earth data. What you create can inform, educate, inspire, or simply provide an enjoyable experience for players – the Earth is your stage!
SpacEscape
The game “SpacEscape” is in an escape room format so that players can proactively learn by solving puzzles instead of passively receiving information. It is also immersive with features of 3D and the first-person perspective.
Technology Usage
- Unity 3D
- SketchUp (some decorative models are imported from the asset store and others are built from scratch)
- C# and JavaScript
- Design software including Adobe Photoshop
- More Puzzles – The Earth is full of wonders, so we want to approach and decode it in various creative ways!
- More Interactivity – Build the game in Virtual Reality form and across platforms!
- More Data – We want to know more about the Earth, even incorporating graphs!
NASA Data and other Resources employed in the Game:
Imagery and technology detecting natural disaster:
- https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/88796/puerto-rico-goes-dark#
- https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/articles/wildfires-cant-hide-from-earth-observing-satellites.
Data and imagery on iceberg and more:
NASA’s discovery about Earth’s atmosphere expanding beyond the moon:
Information on climate change and satellites:
3D models of satellites, Earth, and astronaut: