Motivation

As of January 2019, more than 34,000 of scrap metal pieces larger than 10 cm were estimated to be in orbit around the Earth, making collisions with debris a hazard to spacecraft.

We want to help people understand the importance of cleaning space debris that is currently orbiting the earth and show an educational and funny way to do it.

Solution

By getting the the mobile GPS coordinates, we get all the nearby scrap metal data using the WorldWind API provided by NASA and use it to build the game missions. The goal is to clear all the real scrap metal in orbit and return safely without taking too much damage.

After a mission is completed, the user can upgrade the Spaceship using the collected scrap metals. Materials are simulations of the real materials used to build satellite components like Titanium, Carbon Fiber, Aluminium, Kelvar and Carbon Nanotubes, making it faster, more collection capacity and resistant to damage and radiation.

Video gameplay

Main Features of Fosco:

• Score board leaders
• Original designs
• Real scrap metal positions.

Resources used from NASA:

• Spacebirds web-app
• Spacebirds codebase

Development process :

• We used free tools to create game models and import it to the game engine.
• We created a Node js server to load Space scrap metals from WorldWind API and return missions based on user position.
• We use Flutter framework and the Fame library to develop the game.

Tools used:

• Flame
• Flare 2D
• Node js
• Flutter

Repository:

Github