A recent personal project and possibly the final project of CSC112. A small game/utility that draws upon astronomical data from NASA to create a map of the surrounding stars and planets, combined with a ship and random events that provide a rogue-like experience. Uses SimpleJSON for parsing the two JSON files.
Requires the two JSON files to run.
The data for exo.json is taken from the NASA Exoplanet Archive at http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/
The data for hydata.json is taken from the HYG Database, which one can check out over at the astronexus/HYG-Database repository.
-- Commands:
go x,z
Travese the x/z plane x units right/left and z units up/down. The y dimension is discarded, for now.
info key
Print out the common name of the star indicated by it's key, or a-z/A-Z letter. If a common name dos not exist, than its HIP entry is provided.
exit
Terminates the program