Sleep Well| Orbital Scrap Metal — The Video Game

Project Details

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.

Debris Hunter

Sleep Well

Project link

GitHub https://github.com/yuyuwu5/hackthon

Website http://linux2.csie.ntu.edu.tw:8080/

MOTIVATION

Since 20th century, we have had a big step forward space exploration. On the other hand, we also produce lots of space debris at the same time. Large amount of trash in the space may cause serious space accidents with high probability. Therefore, we want to make everyone pay attention to the issue of debris.


OUR BELIEF

" We care about where we live "

We hope the public can focus on the issue of space debris.

Hence, we create these web games.


WHAT WE DO ?

Game

We have three games in our project. In the first game, according to The Kessler Syndrome, we know that the amount of space trash increases dramatically. Thus, we present this phenomena to our players to let them know the severity. In the Second game, we demonstrate the difficulty for a spaceship to pass through the space trash area. In the Last game, we show the players several types of space junk. The debris is composed of not only Asteroid but also artificial space trash. In conclusion, we want to convey the concept that everyone has the responsibility to care about the planet we live.


Website

Through our static website, we provide extra information related to space debris, including what it is, where it from and How it causes damage. Furthermore, we introduce a new technology in debris cleanup. We expect that we can raise public awareness of environment issue.


OUR VALUE

Education

As all we know, education is an important way for us to both knowing this world and conveying the things we believe in. A game is not just a meaningless game anymore, it may become much more knowledgeable. In our project, we come up with some question to ask players during the playing time, or display the information of a specific space debris object. Through these ways, we hope that the players cultivate new thinking in astronomical science and become more environment-friendly.


Joyfulness

We rewrote classical single-user games and combined them with hot environmental issue -- space debris. While playing these video games, user will get to know the phenomena at the same time. If they want to see more information about debris, our website lists part of related introductions and references.

OUR CHALLENGE

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