ZACHARY BARASH, DEVELOPER 
DANIEL NANNI, DEVELOPER

Sloan Grant Won: 2017, Game Center Award, New York University

Project Type: Game

Synopsis

The night sky is full of apparent beauty, yet hides boundless information in plain sight. In AstronoME, players chart the night sky using actual astronomy techniques. AstronoME is a cooperative 2-8 player card game being developed for the Sloan Foundation, for players age eight to eighty.

Bio

Zachary Barash is a proud graduate of the NYU Game Center and a senior game designer for Kingdom Death: Monster, the most successful Kickstarter game of all time. He is delighted to combine his love of astrophysics, family-centric design, and educational game design in AstronoME.

In a previous life Daniel Nanni toured in a pop punk band, worked as a professional interactive designer, and got a BFA degree in graphic design. More recently, in 2014 he had a small successful Kickstarter for his color acuity testing game Colorthesia, had his game, Lightning, appear in festivals across 3 continents, and in May 2017 earned his MFA in game design from NYU’s GameCenter.