Web-Based Game – On Console: Psyche

INSTITUTION

Pennsylvania State University – Behrend (PSB)

CLASS

Tungsten Class (2023 – 2024)

STUDENT TEAM

Jace Sidorchuk, Computer Science, B.S.
Garrett Macomber, Computer Science, B.S.
Jenna Tomko, Software Engineering, B.S.
Han Dang, Software Engineering, B.S.

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

Meng Su (primary advisor)
Ziyun Huang (secondary advisor)
Pulin Agrawal (secondary advisor)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

On Console: Psyche is an educational WebGL game built in Unity and based on the NASA Psyche mission that teaches players about its scientific goals. Four minigames allow players to experience the sort of scientific investigations that will be carried out by the actual spacecraft, and a fifth minigame about the spacecraft’s orbit connects them.

 

Game menu for "On Console: Psyche" with options: Play, Game Select, Options, Credits. Space scene with asteroid and satellite Space game screen showing an asteroid with orbit paths. Text: "Fuel Used: 4.3". Buttons: "Options" and "Continue Magnetometer game screen with asteroid, magnetic field lines, and N/S labels. Timer at top, options and submit buttons below Game screen with five puzzle pieces on a grid, timer at 00:22.7. Buttons labeled "Options" and "Continue Space game interface showing radio wave graphs, asteroid orbit, and options for "Observed" and "Your" radio waves Spectrometer game screen with observed and user spectra, element graphs for Carbon, Iron, Magnesium, Nickel, and options

This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Arizona State University Capstone Course “CSE 485”. The work is a result of the Psyche Student Collaborations component of NASA’s Psyche Mission (https://psyche.ssl.berkeley.edu). “Psyche: A Journey to a Metal World” [Contract number NNM16AA09C] is part of the NASA Discovery Program mission to solar system targets. Trade names and trademarks of ASU and NASA are used in this work for identification only. Their usage does not constitute an official endorsement, either expressed or implied, by Arizona State University or National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of ASU or NASA.