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The Challenge | Orbital Scrap Metal — The Video Game

Nuts, bolts, spent rocket stages, and broken pieces of satellites orbiting Earth are just a few of the many thousands of items known as orbital debris, or space junk. Your challenge is to create an orbital debris collection videogame web-app! You may build upon NASA’s Spacebirds and real data.

SpaceCleaners

Play and learn with the human history in space and that scraps we left.

Hawker

Our goal is to teach in a fun way about human space history, curiosities and addressing one of the growing challenges (space scraps). In the beggining our audience is the Brazilians, which came as a desicion after analysing data from a 2018 research (Pesquisa Game Brasil 2018).

  • 75.5% (145 millions) of Brazils population played games.
  • 33.6% of the games played were at some level educational.
  • 70% of parents aknowledge games as a great educational opportunity for children.

The same research also presented the biggest plataform used as smartphones (84.3%). With those informations, we focussed on prototyping a game that is going to use NASA data, along with game rules, to generate new levels. Through the list of scraps in orbit, the game is going to always be showing the total observed, and for each object collected during the phase, it is going to be possible to see information regarding the origin of the fragment. In addition to this, information will also be presented from operating satellites and the International Space Station.

We want to engage people from two different contexts, first adults (aged 25-54), that represent 68% of game market, to collect data to expand our project. The second are teenagers from 12 to 16, that are in school years where space history and information are thought.

Besides the core of the game, SpaceCleaners is going to allow other activities, such as posting on social networks curiosities and information or requesting additional lifes and bonuses. Later on, we are going to add a optional to use advertisement to get same bonuses. The money earned is going to be used for covering the mininum expenses for the game and direct the remainning to projects of cleaning human dispose, at eath and space.