The Blossoms - Space Apps Challenge

The Blossoms| 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.

saving the world

Summary

kids are the future that should know the importance of preserve the planet. so We decided to create a game that is divided into 7 levels each level discuss a problem, for example, the 1st level will be about water pollution where there are characters throwing waste in the river and then the player will try to prevent the waste from reaching the water and if waste reached it and he loses in the round The game will display a video animation showing the result of throwing waste into the water and what can cause such as cancer. Each level has 3 other stages that present different methods of area disaster and methods to preserve it, wherein the end the player, knowing how to preserve the planet.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The environmental issue we face today will have an impact on the future generation. Therefore, we have developed a fun game that will help the future generation to preserve the environment and know the negative consequences of neglecting the earth and the environment, and they will have complete conviction in the reasons for preserving the environment and how the method of neglecting it will be.

This project is very important because protecting the environment protects humanity as pollution is one of the most dangerous factors that affect the environment. It affects the quality of food, leading to ingestion of toxic substances.

Human beings have a moral obligation to preserve nature and its properties where humans are responsible for caring for the environment. It would be protecting the environment to really fulfill their desires. So we thought that the next generations are the independent makers and the protectors of the environment, so the information must be communicated to them through the thing they use and love the most, and it is the games. The idea of the game is simple and useful that will teach them at every stage to preserve a part of the environment and its humility, which may change the humanity and the environment really .

The way to run the game is simple, as the game consists of 7 different levels each level discuss a problem, as the 7 problems discussed in the game are water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution Deforestation, weather change, and global warming. each level will discuss a problem and it contains 3 stages where each stage demonstrate a problem in a different way with a different way to solve .the player will with an arrow to move his character to prevent the characters around it from polluting the area ( example: air pollution and water pollution ) by the different way. when each level end or the player loss and the area in the level pollute there is an animation video that appears showing what happens to the people result from the polluting area and the disease that spread only from the polluting area where at the end of the level the player will learn how to preserve the specific area from the polluting and what will happen if he leaves the pollution.

My method in developing this project will focus mostly on the development of the game's technologies to better communicate information to its users, as the game can be in the form of PlayStation or even in the form of x-box where it encourages its users to play with it more and develop their understanding about the environment and pollution and it can be The development of the short video that will be shown during the game and to make it 3d form to be one of the most important and interesting short videos that communicate its goal smoothly to children or even adults and future generations.

How We Developed This Project

Children are the youth of the future, so children should be made aware of the importance and ways to preserve the planet. so we decided to choose this challenge knowing the importance of building a sustainable future where the environmental issue that we face today will have an impact on the future generation. Therefore, by comparing the different environments and finding a wide difference between an environment free of problems and pollution and an environment that is pervaded by problems, we were inspired by the importance of this challenge and the importance of communicating the idea of preserving the environment for future generations for a

better future because there is no life without a healthy environment.

In order to develop the project and ensure its effectiveness and ensure a solution to the problem, we designed the game shape by using the Sketch Up application, through it, we designed the final shape of the game. Then for its practical experience, we designed the game itself on the Build box application We tried it and played with it, from here we made sure of the development of the project and how children and future generations would enjoy it, especially the presence of cartoon animation and the game is enjoyable.

We are not only achieving progress on building the project or the scientific scope but also on the humanitarian and practical scale where our team gained many skills and acknowledge from this competition. The first important skill we gained is teamwork and how to work as one team and to communicate with each member even if we don’t know each other, we were like a sibling! and understand each other not to be biased as we success to work in the pressure of time as we faced and solved many problems like different opinions and managing the time of the meeting and work even that we worked more than 5 hours we still have the ability to work together without an argument. second, we gained obligatory skills that will help us in the future that, the skills are how to make a search and make a research paper from a trusted source as we know that the information that depends on science must be from trusted sources as books and references.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

1-https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Envisat/Global_air_pollution_map_produced_by_Envisat_s_SCIAMACHY

We started using this site to monitor the problems facing the environment and the earth all over the world and the most common and widespread environment issue to use in the different level of the game until we reach the player a certain thing.

2-https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Securing_Our_Environment/Pollution_tracking

This website helped us very much in the work of the different stages of the game, as it showed us the causes of pollution on the ground, which helped us in the work of the stages in each level in identifying one of the causes of pollution or the problem and showing the video that shows its solution.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2018/02/13/what-climate-change-means-for-glaciers-storms-fires-clouds-atmospheric-rivers-and-more/

Help us monitor the problem of changing the climate, as we will use it in one of the stages of the game

Project Demo

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19DGHEmLDBlzo4ObkZrb7wkIhSA92EQDf/view?usp=sharing

Data & Resources

https://2020.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/sustain/sustaining-our-planet-future-generations/teams/the-blossoms/project

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Worldwide_water_quality_app_hits_the_web

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Securing_Our_Environment/Pollution_tracking

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Envisat/Global_air_pollution_map_produced_by_Envisat_s_SCIAMACHY