Psyche Lander Mission
TOMMY DESJARDINS
March 30th, 2026
Major: 3D Digital Design
Genre/Medium: HTML5 Game
About the Work:
Psyche Lander Mission is a short playable experience that teaches visitors about the Psyche asteroid and the associated NASA mission. I built this game with gamemaker studio, a platform for creating simple 2d games. The project was built for HTML5 meaning it can be played entirely on a browser. Currently the project is hosted here: https://chess31.itch.io/psyche-explorer-mission.
The game can easily be edited to include different information about Psyche, or be expanded to show/explain other aspects of the mission. The simple UI design and controls were implemented to allow a wide audience to easily access the experience. Using only the arrow keys of a keyboard, players get to land on Psyche, move around the terrain, and investigate points of interest along its surface.
For future versions of the project I would love to add more accurate physics to the movement of the rover. That way players could experience the unique low gravity environment and imagine the difficulty of designing a rover that could exist in Psyche.
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