Project Details

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!

HackMeDandy

HackMeDandy is a space app game that allows player to explore different planets of the solar system. Player can gain various elements as resources that can be used for civilisation and development of their own planet.

Problem:

It is hard for us to imagine the interactions between planets and within the universe. For example, formation of planets and stars through dusts and gases. Besides, as a normal human being on earth. we hardly imagine the circumstances faced when utilising and harvesting the resources from other planets.

Solution:

Through our game, users can customized their own star and planet on their own preference. This can be done through adjusting different scales of temperature, brightness, position and make a choice between various star types. Users are able to explore other planets and develop of their own planet by using the element of resources mined from other planets.


Benefits:

- Improve the knowledge of space and universe

- Resources management and allocation

- Self sustainability with limited resources

- Improve critical thinking ability

- Importance of having research


Challenges:

- learn and apply the knowledge of space from scratch as none of us have astronomy background

- time limitation


Tools used:

- Adobe photoshop and illustrator

- Invision app