Space Apps Challenge 2018

MidDayDreams | On the Shoulders of Giants

The Challenge | On the Shoulders of Giants

Create a game using images from the Hubble Space Telescope as integral components!

Hubble Dream Drive

A computer game of an imaginary fly through the evolution of the Universe observed in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images. There are options of HST orbit around Earth, Description of HST with 3D visualization with different parts and how it works .

MidDayDreams

Hubble Dream Drive


Hubble Dream Drive is a computer game of imaginary fly by between celestial objects created from images captured by Hubble Space Telescope (HST) . This dream trip consists of different protostars,infant galaxies, galaxy mergers, quasars , pulsars, comets, nebulae , supernova , star and galaxy clusters, solar system objects etc created from HST images according to distance of the object from HST . This game has four main modules -

  • Dream Drive
  • Hubble Space Telescope Intro
  • Hubble's Orbit
  • How Hubble Works

The game play strategy of Dream Drive is a zen mode imaginary drive by a space ship. This dream tour consists of a space vehicle which is free from cosmic constraints ( as it is a drive in dream :) ) . The journey starts in the primitive period of the universe which is designed from Hubble Ultra Deep Field images . Images of celestial objects which are more than 13 billion light years away are used in this stage . As we know , lights coming from a distance of 13 billion light years will represent an image of the state of that object 13 billion years ago . The space ship visits different celestial objects according to their age which also represents the evolution of the universe . In this dreamy journey , gamer will visit Eagle Nebulae , Helix nebulae , Orion Nebulae , Ring nebulae, Crab Nebulae , Butterfly nebulae , Andromeda , milky way , phantom galaxy , Virgo cluster , Saturn with aurora, Neptune with aurora , Supernovae , pulsars , Quasars etc .

Hubble Space Telescope Intro is a game scene where gamer will be able to visualize 3d view of the Hubble Space Telescope , view of different parts of the HST and a brief description of Hubble Space Telescope .
HST Description : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJZ6kmpeQtuh2X...


Hubble's Orbit game scene shows orbit of HST around the Earth in three different camera view and related data in that specific position .

How Hubble works shows the working paradigm of Hubble Space Telescope in a 3D animation, Where gamer will be able to know how Hubble Space Telescope sends Images to base station via relay mechanisms .

We have plan to scale this prototype to a complete game with more data and images of HST to let people know about the contribution of this one of the greatest revolutionary scientific machines in the history of Astronomical Science .


Project Link : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FUClAbV3S2... ( As our project size crossed 3GB in size , it couldn't be uploaded in Git )
Source Code : https://bitbucket.org/middaydreamsspaceapps/hubble...


Tools Used :

  • Unity Game Engine
  • Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Illustrator
  • Draw.io
  • Jupyter Notebook

Resources Used :
  1. www.nasa.gov
  2. www.spacetelescope.org
  3. http://hubblesite.org
  4. https://www.eso.org
  5. http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/astro.image.html




We have plan to scale this prototype to a complete game with more data and images of HST to let people know about the contribution of this one of the greatest revolutionary scientific machines in the history of Astronomical Science .











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