Web-Based Game – Psy-Contruct

INSTITUTION

Seattle University (SU)

CLASS

Platinum Class (2025 – 2026)

STUDENT TEAM

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Psy-Contruct is a two-phase Unity WebGL game in which the player first builds a Psyche-class spacecraft from authentic mission instruments, then flies it from Earth to the asteroid Psyche through a physics-driven solar system learning about the real mission along the way.

This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Seattle University Capstone Course “CPSC 4870.” 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.