cubesat DASH
card game
CubeSat Dash packaging (front)
CubeSat Dash packaging (side and back)
CubeSat Dash packaging mock-up
CLIENT
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Strategic Partnerships Office (SPO)
BRIEF
I designed and created the CubeSat Dash card game during my 2018 summer internship for SPO. It is a card game featuring CubeSats (modular type of small satellites, AKA SmallSats). Each card outlines the the CubeSat's mission, background info, collaborators, launch date, and Goddard technologies used in the CubeSat. The card game was handed out at Goddard’s booth at the 2018 Small Satellite Conference in Logan, UT and other Goddard attended events.
PROCESS
Researching game mechanics was a crucial first step for this project. One of the most inspirational games that our Marketing team looked at was a game called "Love Letter". Whereas the objective of "Love Letter" is to try to send your love letter to a princess, CubeSat Dash's objective is to race to launch the CubeSats to space.
The cards and game's packaging were designed in Adobe Illustrator. Each CubeSat rendering was made by pen-tracing CubeSat photographs or 3D models. I researched playing card design to learn how to design the card layouts and the game's' box packaging. The design on the packaging was designed on a 2D mock-up before being printed and assembled.
HOW TO PLAY CUBESAT DASH