Aurora team| Breakthrough
Breakthrough
Astronaut
Summary
After a little research, we found that the best way to address the challenge is making a 3D game that provides a virtual space experience as an astronaut by making a 3D model of the solar system and he have to start a journey to visit all the planets using the first technology in space crafts which was on the space shuttle Colombia (STS-1) and during his journey he have to develop his shuttle with the next generation to reach the next plant till he reaches Neptune then he will develop to a light speed shuttle that can travel between galaxies.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We had developed a 3D game on (unreal engine) it contains a 3D models of the solar system.
because it provides an engaged way to learn about the old, new and theoretical space shuttle engine technology.
The game provides for the user a realistic space experience to as a real astronaut it also provides a lot of information about the planets, the solar system and the space shuttle engine technology.
The player have to make a journey around all the solar system and visit all the planets starting from earth, during the journey he will get knowledge about the planet he heads on and the required engine and technology to move from the planet, in each planet he stops on he have to develop his space shuttle to move to the next planet, to do this he have to collect the engines parts by answering questions about the information he got on the space shuttle till he reaches Pluto he will get the lightyear engine and discover another galaxy.
We hope to develop the game and add another planets even another galaxies to discover to never stop the hope of development for the users.
How We Developed This Project
First we were searching for a challenge that we can apply a solution solves all the challenge points then we found that each one of us is interested in something different there was who is interested in games devolving and who is interested in programming even who is interested in graphic design then we found that the challenge (breakthrough) was collecting all our interested in one solution in addition that all of us was interested in physics, also after we read the challenge we all had ideas and an image for the solution, also we found that we can provide a creative solution that solves all the challenge points.
We were using a different approach to develop our project we were collecting all the ideas about all the topics from all the team members like in the game developing all the team was providing ideas even if they don’t anything about game developing because he can provide a solution to a problem or a creative idea that will help developing and the same.
We are using Unreal Engine 4 from epic games that is using C++ programming language we just had used our laptops as a hardware.
We had faced a lot of problems during our work on the project however we had passed it all with team work, one of this problem was the time we had discovered that making a game that solve all the challenge problems will take all this time however we finished it before the dead line, another problem we was working under big pressure due to the time pressure and one of our team had left the team due to the big pressure.
The most achievement we are glade to reach is completing our game and providing a solution covers all the challenge points in high quality.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
we had benefited a lot from the agency data in collecting information about the planets and the solar system especially in topic from NASA official site and in NASA’s eye we found a lot of topics that helped me to study the planets nature and physical properties like: gravity, pressure and temperature it helped me to develop a realistic models of the solar system, we had found a lot of useful 3D models in NASA 3D resources website that helped us adding some environments to our space like satellites, rocket engines and etc.… .
Project Demo
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GJfFZsBivtnXbkEhW3d4mjRVgCuqSs2N?usp=sharing
Data & Resources
https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models
NASA's eye application
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/international-space-apps-challenge
https://m.marefa.org/%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AE_%D8%B0%D9%88_%D9%88%D9%82%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%A8
https://www.albayan.ae/five-senses/entertainment/2011-01-17-1.997607