Gatexy| 1UP for NASA Earth

Project Details

Awards & Nominations

Gatexy has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Local Peoples' Choice Winner

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!

NOT JUST A GATE

GATEXT game helps us to learn more information about our universe in a simple and funny tasks as the user will start entering one gate which refers to one galaxy then to one system and one planet to observe the different characteristics for each planet.

Gatexy

Motivation

Approximately most of people stay from 4 to 22 years or may be more just studying science, but is it really funny? Maybe not all people will ignore this fact but the other will do, and what about astronomy? Is every one really know a lot about our universe? and if yes, is really all these information are totally correct? All of those questions tend us to found really applicable, funny, educative way to solve this problem and from here we’ve started.

(WELCOME TO GATEXY).

GATEXY is about creating complete VR world depending on self-enjoyable learning (adapting NASA information).

Solution

So, GATEXY is our solution. It is composed of many gates each one is a galaxy from our universe, each galaxy is composed of many systems like our solar system, each system is composed to many planets and we will start from earth, cause it is our planet and there is a lot of information that we know about it.
Each planet acts as a level of the game so, you have to do some tasks to pass and jump to another level, and from level to another till you finish your system and have a general funny test of information that you’ve got during playing and discovering planets, then from system to another till you end a galaxy and move to another one. There are some tasks need be played in group to could be solved.

The tasks on each planet will be as follows:

Detecting:

  • Planet order in the system.
  • Planet appearance.
  • Number of moons.
  • Minerals and rocks on planet.
  • Popular chemicals on each planet.

Calculating:

  • Gravity.
  • Radius.
  • Volume.
  • Temperature.
  • Area.
  • Density of planet
  • How long is the day?
  • How long is the year?

Mention our database table from NASA: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GS0cWraN3gYNrt9Za...

Mention sample of app code on github:

Some shots from our game:


Main features of GATEXY VR:

  • Exploring the previous concepts of each planet.
  • Offering full detailed options on each planet to provide full 3D shot.
  • Capability to merge between facts of science and funny exciting game options.
  • After finishing our game, you will gain trusted, real and huge amount of information about our universe.

Tools used

  • Unity.
  • Online tutorials.
  • Adobe Photoshop /
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Auto-desk Maya.

Future plans

The main important item for creating new idea is how to make it as sustainable as it could be and how to have more players all over the time , after we know more about factors affecting sustainability of any game we got some steps to got sure that our game could last as much as it could be :

  • We will put the game on both App store and google play to let more people try it and send us feed back
  • From time to time we will update the game on both sides as structure ( the game it-self and its programming issues )and as information ( that we are going to update game’s information adapting NASA information and make sure they are same

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