Robonaut’s ship, asteroids compositions, and UI were concepted through reference of NASA engineers and documentation that were at the event in order to provide developers insight into making a realistic outer space experience.

Robonaut is a PC game developed by a team of 7 over a 3 day period at the 2016 Indie Galactic Game Jam. It can be downloaded here for free on Itch.io.

Accolades:
– Winner of the Best in the Universe Award and $2,000 by Space Florida
– Finalist at I/ITSEC 2016’s Serious Games Challenge
– Press Coverage

My Tasks:

• Create an equation for realistic asteroid composition by referencing NASA engineers and scientific research
• Balance payload gain versus repair cost with respect to NASA’s projections of deep-space mining
• Develop a mining tool upgrade system