What's YOUR flight path?

Here’s what I’ve completed today!

I created my first minigame, which involves a character (which I designed using squares on Canva) who jumps onto platforms to collect Saturns within a specific time frame.

A challenge I faced was getting the Saturns to send out and receive signals correctly. I also had trouble with animating the Saturns to float, but it worked once I restarted that segment.

I’ve actually worked on this for over 2 hours, but I forgot to refresh GoDot so it never even tracked my time…. I actually almost cried but it’s ok, life goes on I guess.

Anyways, today I created the first scene that users will see when the game opens.

I want this game to be a way for students to learn about unconventional careers in aerospace so they can learn where they can thrive with their specific interests and skills (ex. aerospace x biology -> research space medicine/astrobiology, flight surgeon, etc.)

I also created three buttons on the Start Menu today: START, SETTINGS, and QUIT, and I coded the functionality behind each one (tomorrow I need to create the scene for all of these (besides the quit button because that just quits the game) buttons to open)

On the beginning scene I designed a black background with stars everywhere, a text box saying “Created by Sandhana Rajesh” and my student initiative’s logo (GSAI aka the Global Student Aerospace Initiative).

This game will also serve as a way to let more people learn about my organization that I’ve founded and let them get involved to learn more about aerospace careers and space in general by becoming general members.