We are a team of 6 friends who have undertaken this project inorder to help educate people and inspire them to take action in the future whenit comes to polar environments and other ecosystems in our planet,especially when it comes to climate change and how it affects us. Our team'sgoal was to do this in an interactive environment such as a game, to keeppeople engaged and teach them without having them lose interest in the topicthroughout the process.
For this purpose, our team built a game in the Unity engine using C#, made themusic for it in FL Studio, sprites in GIMP and foundother copyright-freesprites online. Wealso used Openshot as a tool to create a video of the demo gameplay foreveryone to see. We are still in the early stages and haven't fully developedevery aspect of it due to time constraints, but we know what we want to achievewith it, how to do it or at least how to learn to, and we're very excited toput our technical knowledge to use in something as fun as an educational game.
Our teamis full of first-timers in this, from programming in Unity to using videoediting tools to creating music and game sprites, so we had a lot to learnbefore we could do anything during this 2-day period. We believe it's been agreat learning and bonding experience and we've certainly come out of it withextra skills and a willingness to continue this project and make a success outof it.
Here'sour Unity project uploaded to Mega, since we wanted our code to be publiclyavailable:
https://mega.nz/#!5Id0UKJL!qZ40ZLpE_SrfGlCgZsvT2LaxE3vIocNkljH0PMOpcmU
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