Orbital- Skyward Ascent

Ending/Starting Screen
In game
Worlds Screen
Avatars Screen
How To Play Screen

Inspiration

Flappy bird and Crossy Road.

What it does

It is a game designed for users to observe the sky, stars, and planets as they play through difficult passages. The user guides a ship through gaps that are moving and static, and the gaps get progressively smaller, making the game increasingly harder.

How we built it

Using AI and human prompting given to the AI.

Challenges we ran into

The code recessed and had many bugs in it, making it unplayable. This forced us to restart.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were still able to finish and produce a project despite having to restart.

What we learned

How to code in Java and Python.

What's next for Orbital- Skyward Ascent

More worlds, avatars, possible game features/abilities.

Built With

github

Submitted to

hackPHS 2026

Created by

I helped with the planning stages of the project and the initial coding. At first I had lots of trouble understanding the coding app we were using, but after some experimentation I figured out the formating. To make the initial code, I prompted the built in AI. However, afterwards we edited this code to make it look better and contain more features. Additionally, I came up with the original idea, though my team members help me edit and improve upon it.

m Romalis
I helped edit the code by assisting Arjun with prompts to eliminate bugs and other malfunctions in the code, did some test runs.

Victoria Yong
I kept the team together and on track. This was also my first time doing a hackathon and doing coding with AI, which I was a bit confused by at first, but I learned how to use it.

A O
I helped by tweaking the game, fixing bugs, and wrote most of the edits to the code. I also did most of the prompts to the AI.

Arjun Krishnan