SPIN| Orbital Scrap Metal — The Video Game

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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.

Orbital Scrap - Educational

Educational Game about Orbital Scrap aiming astronomy's encouragement in Brazil, that will be done with the help of schools and partners to make dreams come true, improve STEM abilities and the knowledge in astronomy.

SPIN

https://github.com/RafaelBatistaMenegassi/NasaOrbitalSPIN

Game simulating interactions with orbital scrap that trigger quizzes aiming to educational purposes.


The team made a prototype of a game using the Unity Engine. With this prototype you can control a spaceship and collect orbital scraps and dodge asteroids. The game was supposed to show pop-ups with questions about astronomy and related subjects, depending on the scrap he collected. It was also supposed to have a ranking of the players where we would encourage competition and curiosity in the students.

The players has 3 lives so he could try to reach his best score. He loses his lives after hitting an asteroid, so if he hits 3 asteroids he loses, however answering a question wrong don't make the player to lose a life.