Sustentaurus - Space Apps Challenge

Sustentaurus| Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations

Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations

There is concern worldwide that environmental issues we face today will have an impact on future generations. Your challenge is to create a way to communicate the importance of environmental responsibility to people of all ages.

Natural-S | Raising awareness of the planet

Summary

Over the years, the importance of making people aware of how to prevent the environment has become apparent. In this way, the Sustentarus team seeks to inform the importance of the environment in which we live in a creative way, through a game, Natural-s. Natural-s is an online electronic game that promotes the initiative to preserve the environment. The game is built on the second question: How can our actions influence the future of the environment? And in this point of view, from the choices made by the player in relation to the environment in which they live will bring good or bad consequences.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The game Natural-s was developed, where the player is the planet Earth and has to avoid pollution, showing how the planet Earth is dying due to undisciplined human action. Its operation is simple and can be reproduced both on cell phones and computers, using only the keys or touching the cell phone screen. Thus, users are expected to be aware of the importance of preserving the environment. This is extremely important for the world population.

Natural-s aims to educate and re-educate users in a creative and engaging way, boosting the search for knowledge about sustainability. The game will provide lessons on the correct way to deal with our planet, in greener decisions, reducing the pollution of the planet, thus teaching customers the correct way to deal with the environment through ingenious tools. During the development of the game, the user will have to choose which is better to continue preserving the environment, thus being able to affect the environmental future in a good or bad way showing the result of their own choices.

The natural is intended for people concerned with the environment, willing to be aware of their actions.

APPLICABILITY: Firstly, promoting electronic games is essential, through the image of preserving the environment. Therefore, the dissemination of the game to all online platforms is of paramount importance for its effectiveness, raising the awareness of a large number of individuals. In addition, a simple and practical game that can be accessed by anyone and anywhere demonstrates its effectiveness on scales of awareness of large masses.

ECONOMIC VIABILITY: As it is an economic development project that spreads easily, it will make countless companies attracted by the brand. By promoting environmental awareness, it will bring companies involved in the field of sustainability. Thus, it is observed that the costs for development by NASA will be low.

COMPANY IMAGE: The brand is associated with an image of sustainability and creativity when it comes to the theme, with this, its differential [is huge compared to other companies in the same sector. Thus, attracting customers and investors will be very profitable.

FUTURE PLANS: We intend to add educational links where users can study ways to preserve the environment. Then, it intends to distribute the game on all virtual platforms. In addition, we intend to move from just one game to a platform with several educational games about the environment.

How We Developed This Project

Over the years, the degradation of the environment is evident, and for that it is necessary to start by raising people's awareness. In this way, Natural-s was developed with the objective of raising awareness among the world population in a creative, simple and economical way, so that we can reach a large scale of people. To do this, we use the GDevelop program, an open source 2D multiplatform game engine that focuses primarily on creating games for PC and mobile devices. During its development innumerable doubts and difficulties arise due to the lack of experience, even with the doubts the elaboration of the project was of paramount importance for our learning.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

NASA data were used for qualitative bibliographic research. It was of fundamental importance the availability that Nasa provided us on the appropriate topics, because we worked on our project based on the data and information that was made available, and this was of fundamental importance because we know that it comes from reliable sources and studies, which it gave us more confidence when it came to working based on that information. Without these data, our work would certainly be greater and perhaps even less reliable, but, due to the data made available by this great space agency, we had scientific bases and confidence when using such information.