Found in Space

NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018 | Rio de Janeiro

"Found in Space" is a physics-based game where you navigate through the gravitational fields of stars photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Learn about physics, NASA’s history and future, and the space phenomena photographed by Hubble along the way.

Project Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNYNnG9ahEA

Project Overview

When we were children, it was very common to be fascinated by the universe, dream of being an astronaut, and even landing on the moon. But we grow up and leave behind our curiosity for what is outside our planet stored inside us.

To awaken again this desire to discover we worked on the “On The Shoulder of the Giants” challenge and developed Found in Space: a game for smartphones that brings the whole universe to your fingertips.

In the game, your objective is traveling in space and fixing the Hubble Space Telescope, recovering some of its lost pictures. Collecting pictures photographed by the telescope, the player embarks in a space adventure, discovering as well some of NASA’s historic and currently in-development spacecrafts.

During the adventure, the player also learns in practice some concepts of physics: gravitational fields, acceleration, and velocity are parts of the journey. This way, the learning of these subjects during one’s academic life becomes much easier.

This was our team first time participating in a hackathon, and it was tough, but we are very proud of what we've accomplished.

Resources used:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/index.html

Technologies used

• Swift 4
• SpriteKit
• UIKit