space-app-2019

This work is for NASA Space Apps Hackathon 2019.

We are working on this challenge: "Orbital Scrap Metal — The Video Game".

https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/stars/orbital-scrap-metal-the-video-game/details

Pre-requsite

• download & install Anaconda
• create an environment with a specific version of Python, e.g. 2.7
• activate python
• install pygame

conda update conda
conda create -n pygame python=2.7
conda activate pygame
pip install pygame

Note: https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html

TODOs

• avoid collision between satellite and collector
• make space junks move in different directions with satellite in the center of the map
• add multiple satellites
• refractor: rename "collector" to "starShip"?
• improve on starShip movement, make it (accelerate/decelerate) smoothly
• make starShip change movement direction (making turns, like a shark eating fishes)

Reference

• https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/