Web-Based Game – A Trip Around the Asteroid Belt

INSTITUTION

Penn State – Behrend (PSB)

CLASS

Platinum Class (2025 – 2026)

STUDENT TEAM

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

“A Trip Around the Asteroid Belt” is a web game meant to engage the public and encourage them to learn more about the NASA-led Psyche mission. Made in the Godot Engine with the native GDScript language, this game is based on a real-life board game made in another Psyche project. It sees the players moving around the board, buying and trading asteroids to gain funding and discover scientific data along the way.

This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Penn State – Behrend Capstone Course “CMPSC 484” and “SWENG 481.” 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.