Discoveries in space are boundless. Here are a few ideas for how this game can evolve in the future!

Finishing the game structure and Jupiter destination

During the Hackathon we came up with the structure of the game and modeled many of the components. However there is still lots of work to be done!

• Finish creating cards (mission cards, science items, media cards, etc.)
• Finish up the rule book
• Test the board game! We can do this either using a tabletop simulator or by physically creating the cards. This is important to do early on to make sure the game is balanced, understandable, and fun!
• We also would also love to speak to experts in many fields to be sure we're including relevant, accurate, and exciting data.

The Solar System: Our Base Game

Additional Destinations

This wiki has used Jupiter as an example of a destination. Our vision for this game is to have multiple different destinations that players can choose from. The theme we have in mind is the solar system.

• Mercury: temperatures, topography, rock composition
• Venus: toxic atmosphere, extreme temperatures, crushing air pressure at the surface, exploring the surface (volcano, "recent" resurfacing, etc), backwards rotation
• Earth/ISS: how how space technology can teach us about Earth and improve life on Earth, carrying ISS research (e.g. growing plants, astronaut health)
• Mars: terraforming Mars including missions around growing plants, creating healthcare, creating living quarters, mining for resources, using rovers to search and collect samples
• Saturn: ring composition, ring rotation, fun moons here too
• Uranus: axis, temperature, rings, moons
• Pluto: exploring the orbit, planet vs not planet, moons, water

Expansions Packs: New destinations and Research Goals

Many games have expansion packs that allow you to add new destinations, missions or mechanics to the already created game. As there are many areas of space research that reach beyond the solar system, we have ideas for potential expansion packs. These packs would also create a way teach the public about to add new research tools, technology updates or discoveries as they occur! Below are some ideas:

• Discovering exoplanets
• Exploring distant galaxies
• Solar science (based on the Parker Solar Probe)
• Themes exploring aspects of human space flight such as effects on different body systems
• Telescopic missions - planet pass over our view of a star, black holes, gravity, doppler