Quiet Planet

The COVID-19 outbreak and the resulting social distancing recommendations and related restrictions have led to numerous short-term changes in economic and social activity around the world, all of which may have impacts on our environment. Your challenge is to use space-based data to document the local to global environmental changes caused by COVID-19 and the associated societal responses.

Mr. Mayor

Summary

Mr. Mayor is a website where individuals are presented with an endearing game that teaches about resource managing and public health and encourages its users to take action applying the game concepts in real life through tasks.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The period of lockdown during the pandemic will make so the emission of greenhouse gasses lessen in 5% this year according to a renowned Stanford professor, Rob Jackson, using this fact as our starting point we idealized a game in which the main goal is to stimulate individuals to help maintain this emission in lower levels even after the threat of Covid-19 is long gone.  To achieve this goal we will use an approach of an increasing number of sustainable tasks each week to jumpstart a habit in the player. 

How We Developed This Project

Our main source of inspiration was the urge to show ''regular'' people that even they can change the world a bit at a time, and helping these individuals develop a habit of incorporating sustainability in their daily life. We found creative and appealing ways to bring space agency data in the life of our players by incorporating facts and information in the formulation of the questions and dilemmas that you have to resolve as a mayor in Mr. Mayor. All of the illustrations were made using Krita and Aseprite. The coding language used was Javascript.

Project Demo

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rawmK26K40qSWgSp9YqxKjMRwTCq-3kK2c2NJ9teIY0/edit?usp=sharing

Data & Resources

We used Data from NASA during the process of formulation of the questions and dilemmas our game was going to address. In order to have scenarios that are both real science facts and also appealing to our public we used data from NASA GIOVANNI and NASA PATHFINDER in the micro context of a city.

Tags
#game #globalwarming #website #resourcemanaging
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.