A game where users can choose a spaceship, navigate through space, land on each of the planets, and learn facts about them.
Made in collaboration with computer science students Hal DeGroat and Aimee Fried-Hardy.
Entrance to the game, complete with spinning planets.
Everyone likes options!
Use arrow keys to get to each planet. When Spaceship gets within 5 pixels of planet, you are taken to that planet.
For Earth, I chose to display major landmarks of our planet.
When you hover your mouse over the planet's name, a pull down box appears with information about that planet.