PLANET FACTORY, as the name suggests a place where planets are build. It is a game set in the virtual reality to create a cosmic environment equipped with the feature of real time hand tracking, where the user can learn and play simultaneously by making planets such that their characteristics like size, mass, gravity, distance from star, orbit, magnetic field etc. should be coherent enough to make the planets sustainable.

Game Background

The story begins with the birth of star from nebula leading to the planet workshop where the user has to build his planet by attaining characteristics from a searching game set in the Dust Land. The user has to adjust the characteristics in such a manner, it is logically and scientifically accurate. The game informs user if his customization is not valid to build a sustainable planet.

Resources

1. For analysing current research of NASA about different planets and their characteristics

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

2. For Calculation of Habitable Zone

https://personal.ems.psu.edu/~ruk15/planets/

The Game is divided into 4 scenes callled THE COSMIC PATHS

1. STELLER SPACE

It is the place where the star is born. Its environment is set in the gaseous and molecular clouds. Star formation takes place in the centre of the NEBULA.

2. DUST LAND

It is the place where the user has to earn the customizing characteristics by searching them in the endless space of dust and matter.

3. PLANET WORKSHOP

It is the place where the user has to customize the characteristics of planets through his/her hand gestures.

The user can change planet's radius and mass in the beginning but has to earn more characteristics from the DUST LAND like water, atmosphere, clouds, magnetic field etc.

4. THE VOID

It is the place where the user has to put the planet into the orbit and the game will tell if the planet lies in habitable zone or not. The Level One completes after the creation of planet and it's intersion into the orbit and the levels continues