Prototype for educational tool that uses radiation information from the Canadian Space Agency to create a story for students to understand its effect on their health
Created by Abeer Khan and Shashikanth Srinath during the Space Apps hackathon 2019 https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/events/2019/space-apps-2019.asp#challenge-4. We deal with RadiN2 challenge. Won the RadiN2 challenge for the Waterloo chapter, qualifying for nationals
Ideas for improvements:
- Retain DOS interface.
- Add more variables for calculating their combined impact on the player's health, such as air pollution index, water pollution, etc.
- Create story "turning points" or "landmarks" for each variables & option combination that involves real life events. Use neural networks to automatically create a story line depending on these hinges.
- Add a positive influences of activities, for e.g. positive results of environmental policies of cities, or good values of pollution indices, etc.
- Add animations in ASCII - art.
We used many useful resources that are we grateful to, such as:
- img2txt. https://github.com/hit9/img2txt . We didn't end up using this but maybe in the future.
- http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Graffiti&t=Type%20Something%20. - Text to ascii art
- https://www.ascii-art-generator.org . We didn't end up using this but maybe in the future.