Monospaces - Space Apps Challenge

Monospaces| Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History

Awards & Nominations

Monospaces has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Local Peoples' Choice Winner

Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History

NASA’s activities in space have brought new knowledge of the Earth, inspiring new ways of thinking about humanity and the planet. However, many people aren’t aware that NASA studies the Earth in addition to other planets. Your challenge is to tell stories of NASA’s Earth science enterprise using interactive digital tools. This will test your technical skills and your ability to think like a historian or educator.

Nasa: Untold Stories

Summary

Inspired by NASA's technology history on Earth, our team has developed a gaming experience to improve the way people see the achievements the Space Agency has done for our planet. With a 2,5D game suited for both mobile, PC and gaming consoles, our role with this project is to provide gamers with a storytelling RPG and crafting adventure, where users help an intern to unveil, alongside NASA's greatest names of all time, all of the extraordinary accomplishments space exploring has brought to earth since 1958.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We propose a game based on NASA's history, in which the player needs to help build the Space agency and make the missions possible. During the game the main character will help NASA's historical figures develop the technologies and solve the problems behind humanities greatest achievements. In each phase, the player will learn how the technologies that were developed in NASA brought advances not only to space exploration but to life on earth. With this, we hope the player will understand that NASA is much more than a space agency.

How We Developed This Project

We used Unity 3D as our game engine. For the game assets we used free objects from the Unity Asset Store and objects made by the team member using Blender. The game mechanics were implemented in C#. We used Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator for the graphical design. For video editing, we used Adobe Premiere and Vegas.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

Our team has used NASA data in order to gather knowledge about both the space agency's technology innovation history, as well as the impact all of these creations had in our society. We've explored both space missions and earthly achievements to develop an exciting and informative gaming experience, creating an opening to exploring different contents within NASA's own data.

Project Demo

https://youtu.be/yuJv23Cju5k

Data & Resources

NASA information:

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/index.html https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/seasat https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West

Video footage: https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-history/videos

Judging

This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.