Hardly Human| 1UP for NASA Earth

Project Details

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!

Earthear

This project is an RPG video game that helps educate and spread awareness about natural disasters such as wildfires.It can be played by people of all ages.

Hardly Human

Background

This RPG game is created by the 5 of us from the team, Hardly Human using NASA's Earth Data to help spread awareness about natural disasters and how to help reduce it.

Resources

Our team consists of 1 project manager, 1 UI designer, 2 visual designer, and 1 programmer.


Development Platforms :-

- Unity

- Visual Basic

- Notepad++

- Adobe Photoshop

- Wacom Tablet


Data used :-

- NASA's earth data

- Sprites and tileset from RPG maker websites


Budget :-

No money is used in the making of this game because we fully used free software and unpaid images from RPG maker websites. Visual graphics are done by our visual designers using wacom tablet.


Challenges faced

- Learning how to use unity

- Compiling each team members unity project into one caused some devastating effects

- Limited time to finish the project correctly

- Using NASA's Earth Data to its fullest will make the game more informative but more boring to players