Astronomy 1 Final Project- Origins of the Moon

Origins of the Moon is a game about the origins of the moon made for children.

How to play our game:

• Download the zip file names Download_Game.zip from this repository:
• Open the zip and click on the file named main twice and the game should open :)
• The file does take a while to load...Please be patient

If that doesn't work you can always:

• Download the zip file from this repository master branch:
• Download pygame by running this command in your terminal: pip3 install pygame or python3 -m pip3 install -U pygame --user
• Then to see if it works run this command: python3 -m pygame.examples.aliens
• If that doesn't work please refer to pygame docs for installation https://www.pygame.org/wiki/GettingStarted
• Open the zip file and run the following command in your terminal: python3 main.py

Learning Objectives of Our Game

• Discuss basic facts about the moon
• Recognize moon phases when viewing the moon
• Understand the origin of moon craters
• Learn a theory on how the moon was created
• Walk through of the history of our moon

User Stories

The following functionality is completed:

• Start Screen
• Menu Screen
• Giant Impact Hypothesis
• Spots of crater forming on the moon
• Earth Moon Systems
• Phases of the moon
• Age of certain Surface of the moon

Walkthrough

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Credits

List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets we used in our game.

• Background image (space.jpg)
  • https://www.pexels.com/search/night%20sky/
• Earth images (earth_from_side.png, earth_from_above.png)
  • http://pngimg.com/uploads/earth/earth_PNG39.png
  • https://www.cleanpng.com/png-north-pole-earth-globe-world-northern-sea-route-pn-616378/
• Moon images (moon_from_above.png)
  • https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/photos/north-pole-moon
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon#/media/File:Moon_Farside_LRO.jpg
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_side_of_the_Moon#/media/File:Moon_nearside_LRO.jpg
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Moon#/media/File:Mons_Rümker_Apollo_15.jpg
  • https://earthsky.org/space/different-sources-ice-moons-south-pole
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lunar_highlands_(AS16-M-3007).jpg
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_craters#/media/File:AS10-29-4324.jpg
• Sun, Earth, and Moon facts
  • https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html
  • https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/moon-distance/en/
  • https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/by-the-numbers/
  • http://cnx.org/content/col11992/1.13
• Arrow image (arrow.png)
  • https://ya-webdesign.com/explore/red-right-arrow-png/
• Zig-zag image (zig-zag.png)
  • https://pngimage.net/zigzag-border-png/
• Giant Impact Hypothesis (all images in directory /assests/gih)
  • https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/6/140605-earth-moon-theia-evidence-space-science/
  • futura-sciences.com/planete/actualites/terre-or-terre-viendrait-chute-160-geocroiseurs-16938/
  • https://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/apollo.html
  • svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
  • https://toutiao.com/item/6265888710915523074/
  • http://illustrato.de/mappe.html
  • https://www.wired.com/2012/03/moon-formation-collision/
  • https://blenderartists.org/t/theia-impact/1190285
• Libraries
• Pygame -Pyinstaller