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

Local Peoples' Choice Winner

The Challenge | Build a Planet

Your challenge is to create a game that will allow players to customize the characteristics of a star and design planets that could reasonably exist in that star system. Ensure that this game provides an educational experience for players!

To fall, or not to fall

“To fall, or not to fall” is a game that allows players to discover why the planets are situated on the certain distances from the stars.

Dusters

Do you know how far the Earth should be from the Sun, so they wouldn't bump into each other and explode? What about other planets and stars?

In the game "To fall, or not to fall" theplayercan inputa certain value for the distance between the star and the planet and getthe prediction of whether the planet could be situated there or no. The player will learn the physical characteristics of the planets and stars, how do they look like, the way to calculate the distances between them through Newton's law of universal gravitation and Newton’s Second Law, as well as what will happen if the distance between them would be changed.

Through playing the "To fall, or not to fall" game the players will discover that the distance from the planets to the stars is one of the key parameters that has to be equal to the certain value in order for the planet to harbor life.

Technologies : JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS.

Github : https://github.com/DimaZdebskyi/dusters


Resources:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/overview/

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160118.html

https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/what-if/what-if-earth-changed-its-orbit.htm

https://giphy.com/explore/gifty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)