Tuldok Kuwit| 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!

Earth - On

A game that gives the player the power to decide the fate of the earth and its inhabitants

Earth On

A 3D game that simulates the Earth's resources being utilized by humans whilst giving either positive/negative impacts on the planet. The objective of the game is to collect icons that is required on the construction of buildings to generate income that increases the players happiness meter but it contributes to the worlds decline in health. To the player he can choose to invest his money in events that benefits the Earth. After every game the player is shown the outcome of his actions through the help of NASA's data in global climate problems.

The resources used are:

Open Source WorldWind ( A NASA open sourced virtual model of the globe ).

Information about trees

Record of Earth's temperature over the years ( Global Climate from 1950 to 2013 ).

Earth's temperature record in graph ( Records from early 1850 to early 2000 ).