Show us your shine!

Every atom that makes up your body was created inside from a star before Earth was even born. We are all made up of stardust.

Starchitects is an interactive galaxy created through a collection of stars made by visitors after taking a quiz and learning their Starchetype.

The Starchetypes

There are 8 Starchetypes that a visitor can be assigned, all with their own unique characteristics!

Web App

Through our web app, visitors can take a short quiz and learn their given Starchetype, customize it to reflect their shine, and send it off into our galaxy!

Unreal Galaxy

After sending their star off, visitors can see their own stars in a collective galaxy, then interact with them via the web app!

Custom Stars

Which star are you?

After a visitor completes the quiz in the web app, they will receive one of these Starchetypes that best show their shine. Below is a closer look at each individual star and what they represent.

The Innovator

The Thinker

The Disciplined

The Visionary

The Producer

The Dreamer

The Independent

The Listener

How does your star shine?

In addition to changing the color of their star, visitors were given 3 different "shine" particle styles to choose from. These shines left a trail as their star navigated the galaxy.

Imagine RIT

Star Creation

At Imagine RIT, we witnessed the creation of our universe as our guests created over 700 stars!

Exhibit Walkthrough

Star Data

Out of the hundreds of stars made, we saw a lot of variation in Starchetypes among our visitors. Overall, The Dreamer was the most popular star that visitors were being assigned!

Our Process

Pipeline

In order to get our project working, we performed a lot of tests. The key factor for our project working was the exchange between our web app and the visitor's customized star and our unreal galaxy. We used MongoDB and React for the web app.

Starchetypes

The Starchetypes were a primary part for the experience of our visitors, and we went through a few iterations for them for both design and optimization purposes.

Unreal Galaxy

Our galaxy is made using Unreal Engine, and our past iterations have played with more graphic and realistic styles.

Imagine Setup

The Team

Jenna DuBois
Designer

Wil Gross
Designer

Alec Jones
Designer

Delancey Hobbs
Designer

Maddie Olszewski
Designer

Kevin Valete
Designer

Kenny Wood
Designer

Abe Furlan
Developer

Hugo Serinese
Developer

Felix Warner
Developer