This is a minigame meant to share a cool property of meteors as they ablate (burn up) in the atmosphere. It was designed, prototyped, playtested, redesigned, and polished over the course of three months by our team's three members.


Art: Ryan and Jordan

Sound: Jordan and Edgard

Programming: Edgard, Jordan, and Ryan


Because we want to share the beauty and awesomeness of nature as it is, we've based the physics on current papers in the field of meteor astronomy. We've adapted simple models of meteor ablation in Campbell-Brown et al. (2013) to determine how the meteors ablate as a function of mass and velocity, and done some rough checks against measurements made in Ye et al. (2013). For more information, the papers are linked below:

Campbell-Brown et al.:https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2013/09/aa22005-13.pdf

Ye et al.:https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1733v1


We also want to give a grateful shout out to our playtesters for helping us iterate and get our game to a presentable state. Thanks to Steve, Michelle, Alex, Yuri, Chunchen, Nicole, Sean, Ryan, Dan, Sara, Silvia!

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorHappy Mallards
GenrePuzzle, Educational
Made withUnity
Tagsminigames, nature, Physics, Relaxing, science
Average sessionA few minutes
InputsMouse, Touchscreen, Smartphone

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Simple and elegant.  This would make a great classroom tool, and with your permission, I'd like to use it in my astronomy classroom next semester.

Absolutely! We're honored that you'd like to use it!