Astroamer_Element_Hunt_Activity

This small game is designed for CLIx Connected Learning Initiative as a part of the Astronomy module. The objective of this game is that it will help them understand the concept of rotation of Earth and how it affects the time of a day.

This game is designed by the CLIx Astronomy Team after which the design was converted into the digital tool by the CLIx technology team. This game has 8 clues that the player has to solve in order to collect different elements. It is available in 3 languages - English, Hindi and Telegu.

Contributors

Conceptualising and Designing

CLIx Curriculum Team

1. Shamin Padalkar
2. Sheetal Chopde
3. Rafikh Shaikh
4. Archana Correa

MIT Team

1. Scott Osterweil
2. Judy Perry

Development Team

1. Ashwin Nagappa
2. Tanvi Domadia
3. Tejas Shah

Production and Management Team

1. Jaya Mahale
2. Jayashree Anand
3. Sadaqat Mulla

Graphic Design

1. Somendra Tripathy
2. Vinaya Tripathy

Technology Behind the development.

This game is developed using open source HTML5 & javascript game framework named Phaser.

Standalone Installation instructions

Step 1:- To install the game you have to clone the git repository in you local computer. Type the commands to your terminal. (Preriqusite git software has to be installed in your system)

git clone https://github.com/CLIxIndia-Dev/Astroamer_Element_Hunt_Activity.git or git clone https://github.com/tanvidom/astronomy_tool.git

Step 2:- Unzip this folder and copy it in the root directory of your server.If you using apache in linux, then your root Directory would be at:-

/var/www/html

Or you can use brackets editor and open this folder in brackets and click on the electricity icon on the top right corner of your editor screen for live preview this will create a temporary local server for your development enviornment.

Step 3:- This step is optional but recommended to change the permission of you direcctory to 755.To do so below is the command

chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/Astroamer_Element_Hunt_Activity

Step 4:- Just visit the url of the server. If your are running a local server then the url will be

localhost:8080

Design Documentation

This game was designed during the MIT Design Camp held in 2017 January. The CLIx Astronomy Team and MIT Curriculum Team was involved in pedagogy behind the game and its conceptional design.

Future Scope

Their is a lot of scope in further development of this game. Presently there are only 8 clues which have already been decided, but if teachers/ educators or developers have other clues they can be embedded in this game as well. An authoring interface can be designed so that teachers can use this interface to design thei own activity and use their creativity to enhance learning objective of the tools. The screen size and resolution of the game can also be increased so as to fit different screen sizes.

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