{"slug":"zumorroda-x","name":"Henry's Farm Adventures (Zumorroda-X)","hackathon":"nasa-space-apps-2025","tagline":"A story-driven farming game: travel with Henry to farmers facing floods, heat, drought and salty soil, and solve each with real NASA satellite data.","placement":{"status":"track-winner","awards":["Art & Technology"],"track":"farm-navigators"},"team":{"size":4,"members":[],"countries":["EG"]},"problem":"How farmers adapt to heat waves, floods, drought and salinization — and how satellite data reveals those risks — is hard for students and non-experts to grasp.","solution":"A Phaser web game in which a struggling farmer travels to India (2021 heat), Pakistan (2022 floods), Egypt (salinization), the United States (drought) and Brazil (crop management); each stop turns NASA data — heat maps, Landsat before-and-after imagery, NDVI, the U.S. Drought Monitor — into a mini-game, plus a small model that predicts crop survival from CO₂ levels and adaptation choices.","demo_moment":"Team-described: sliding between NASA satellite images of Pakistan before and after the 2022 floods, then placing straw and drainage pipes to save the fields.","build_style":"software-only","tech":{"stack":["javascript","phaser","python","piskel","landsat","ndvi","vercel"],"ai_patterns":["ml-model"]},"domains":["agriculture-food","games-entertainment","education"],"analysis":{"why_it_stood_out":[{"claim":"Won the award for the project that most effectively combines technical and creative skills.","basis":"organizer-stated","source":1},{"claim":"Puts the player in a farmer's shoes on a world journey, so adapting to climate hazards is experienced rather than read.","basis":"organizer-stated","source":0},{"claim":"Every level is anchored in a real place and event (India's 2021 heat, Pakistan's 2022 floods) with the matching NASA imagery.","basis":"team-stated","source":2},{"claim":"States its own limits (some hazards, such as wildfires, are not covered), which reads as honest scope.","basis":"team-stated","source":2},{"claim":"The game framing turns an agriculture-data challenge into empathy plus learning, which works for judges who are not agronomists.","basis":"curator-inference"}],"mechanisms":["familiar-thing-new-job","expert-data-for-everyone","human-stakes","place-based-specificity"],"judging_lens":["design-ux","storytelling-pitch","originality"],"lessons":["Let the user play the stakeholder; empathy is a judging advantage.","Anchor each scene in a real place, date and dataset.","When an award rewards art and technology together, staff both on purpose."],"confidence":"high"},"links":{"project_page":"https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/2025/find-a-team/zumorroda-x/?tab=project","demo":"https://henrysfarmadventures.vercel.app/","video":"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P-sOTecG2uO2eLu3UabS0PXWLYUKaF4p/view?usp=sharing"},"sources":[{"url":"https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/stem-engagement-at-nasa/nasa-announces-2025-international-space-apps-challenge-global-winners/","kind":"official-results","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14"},{"url":"https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/2025/awards/","kind":"official-event-page","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14","note":"Award definition."},{"url":"https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/2025/find-a-team/zumorroda-x/?tab=project","kind":"project-page","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14","note":"Team-written game design, levels, data sources, tools and AI-use disclosure."}]}