The Big Moon Dig
Games
The Big Moon Dig - Return with us now to the Moon as we are preparing the ground for a real lunar settlement through study, simulations, team building, and exploration.
Work-inProgress on our Big Game
We have just started work on our big main game but you can follow our progress:
- Level 1, Exploring -- You can now move a classic rover around the Mt. Malapert site.
To move the rover:
- W - Forward
- A - Steer Left
- D - Steer Right
- S - Break
- Level 1, Exploring -- You can now move a classic rover around the Mt. Malapert site.
Games You Can Play for Free Now
We have only just started the process of developing games based on our short stories. Here are our first games:
- Step 1 -- Locating Your Lunar Settlement -- Your first task is to choose a location for your lunar settlement.
- Step 2 -- Designing Your Lunar Habitat -- Next you must make many critical design choices for your lunar habitats.
- Step 3 -- Finding Lunar Ores -- Third, you must find lunar ores and other local resources.
BMD Leader Board
Archiving your game results makes you eligible to be on the BMD Leader Board:
#
Name
Location
Habitat
Ores
Over All
#1
Your Name Here
00.0%00.0%00.0%00.0%#2
00.0%00.0%00.0%00.0%3
00.0%00.0%00.0%00.0%4
00.0%00.0%00.0%00.0%5
00.0%00.0%00.0%00.0%Finding a Theme Song
Talks and essays are fine and necessary, but they rarely grab you. What we need is a theme song that will hit people in the gut. Here is a little contest to find theme song for renewing the great advanture of human space exploration.
The Big Game
What we are laboring to build, and this may take some time, is a multi-platform game App with the fun, productions standards, and playership of a “Game of Thrones” or “Mine Craft”, but with the scientific value of “Fold.it”. A fun game that is based on solid scientific data and real high-tech planning. A game with a difference: it just might lead to farther human exploration of space. Even if this result is a hundred to one shot, it is still worth a try.
Please join us and help us work toward our goal. We can do this.
Game Development Document (GDD)
Here is the document we are using to develop our games:
- The Big Moon Dig Game Design Document, -- Details on what actions we must take to make the Big Moon Dig happen.
- Lunar Settlement Lite Game, Location, Step 01 -- One of our first tasks is to choose a location for our lunar settlement.
- Lunar Settlement Lite Game, Habitat, Step 02 -- Next we must make many critical design choices for our design of a lunar settlement.
- Lunar Settlement Lite Game, Ores, Step 03 -- Here is our third game that is now under development. It is a discussion of lunar ores and how to find them.
- Malapert Mosaic in SketchUp -- This is a SketchUp .fbx file of the surface around Mt. Malapert.
Converting LRO Data into a Lunar Surface:
Converting science data to game surfaces, -- We now have a seperate page dedicated to this topic.
Future Games
- Small rover design
- Lunar exploration with small rovers
- Building cairns on the Moon
- Large rover design
- Lunar Mission Design
- Digging big trenches on the Moon
Please Join our Mailing List
If you would like to be kept abreast of progress on the Big Moon Dig, or have any input, please complete our little form, or simply e-mail us.
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