Space Potatoes| Build a Planet
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!
Create your dream solar system
Create your dream solar system is aimed at people who want to learn more about different stars and planets.
We used scratch to create a game where the user can create their own dream solar system whilst learning about stars and planets.
We decided to use scratch because we all knew it and python wouldn't have been very good because it isn't as visual as Scratch is. This also meant we could add more features. We struggled a bit with working as a team but it resolved itself, and the graphic side of things was a bit difficult too.
Our program would be used as a teaching help for teachers to help teach their students more about space.
We used a range of different sources to find out what we needed about stars and planets, most of which were NASA based or a space telescope.
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