Space Atlas: The Solar System

I wasn't sure about this at first, but i'm a space junkie so thought i'd give it a look as it's on sale right now. Have to say that it's pretty interesting although rather light on content for our solar system, compared to a good book perhaps. Planet information is pretty standard stuff, although there are some interesting generic stats about each planet that you don't see everywhere. I'd have liked to see a lot more Kuiper belt information as we have pictures of another one of the planet sized objects available now, as well as Pluto. And we've discovered a few more. Ceres is also notable by it's absence, and that's pretty local, considering it's between Mars and Jupiter. This is about the solar system, not just the planets in it, after all. But the quiz questions are nicely researched, and not predicatable, as well as having high score tables which you can still get your name into at present because it's pretty new. Also it's good fun trying out the landing games to recreate various space missions from the past. Took me a while to land the appolo lander as I didn't realise i had an up thruster. On the whole worth the money, as the planet detail is good, and it's not just some Unity hacked together bit of shovelware by a long way. Recommended if you're interested in this kind of thing.

Now you are about to read something strange, but I was painter and beta tester for this project, and yet I am writing a negative review. I was not kicked out, I left myself. At the beginning, working on this project inspired me, my whole life is connected with space, I know a lot about it and I have been creating textures for years. It seemed that this project needed me, and I needed it. But as it usually happens, optimism comes to end. This project is untenable for a number of reasons: - The developer knows very little about space. As a beta tester, I constantly pointed out not only technical bugs, but also a huge number of obvious astrophysical mistakes. At the beginning, the author placed Miranda satellite below the rings of Uranus, that is, below the Roche limit, because of which it would have collapsed. He did not know that the north pole of Venus is downwards (this is the international consensus of scientists), it took me a whole day to convince him of this. And then another 3 weeks for him to also turn the clouds of Venus, he didn't know that they rotate at all, let alone that they rotate faster than the surface. And he still couldn't fix its rotation. He didn't know what features rain has on Venus and Titan, didn't know how many rocky and icy satellites there are in the solar system. He has a very poor understanding of the topic that he is making educational soft on. That's why he needs consultants, but here we go to the next point. - This developer doesn't know how to work with people. I literally had to fight for every astrophysical correction. In the end, he accepted them, but each time he voiced more and more concessions as if he was doing me a favor, it's completely normal for him to ignore messages for 4 days and skip half the advice. I had to repeat the same thing 4-5 times. That's why he will be running his project alone. - He seriously considers "My girlfriend and Chat GPT support me" a worthy argument. Ofc they will support anyone. He often repeats the argument "Everyone does it", "Everyone thinks so", "it's done that way on the NASA website" (and mistakes were trully made there). The truth of authority is important to him, not the authority of truth. What matters to him is what the majority and his loved ones think. But scientific truth is not democracy, there are inviolable postulates that you are obliged to reflect exactly this way, even if your friends dissuade you. - This project has no prospects for development and sales. The author made a full release in a critically unfinished state. At the end of the year! Without a publisher, advertising or any information support! Yes, he continues to work on it after the release, but this means that the project is still in development, it was not ready. And nobody knows about it, there is no one to sell it to. - There is a bunch of annoying moments that the author conceptually likes. The game has only 2 melodies, dull and unpleasant, and they switch one after another when you click the interface. When landing probes on planets, there is a mumbling from Houston, which is related only to the landing of the Eagle on the Moon, nothing like that happened and could not happen when landing on Venus and Titan. And you can't get rid of this chatter, unless you turn off all the sound on your computer. I told the developer about this, but he said that he liked everything. Recently, he also added a spam interface that does not allow you to just look at the planets and overwhelms you with text information, and your decision to close it is ignored - the information continues to pop up. He made Ceres yellow! It is black indeed, there are no sources presenting it yellow, this is ridicolous. In general, this project is not ready, and the author is morally unprepared to create educational software. He is a big capricious child with the position of "my friends support me, space can wait" and he just likes to make toys. Making such a program is, first of all, responsibility and service to science. This is not here.

Amazing way to explore the solar system! 🪐 Viewing planets in their real proportions to the Sun is truly fascinating. Each planet features surface photos, interesting facts, and 3D visualizations. You can even test your knowledge with quizzes. The landing mini-games are cool! I’m looking forward to the upcoming gravity simulator.

Feels like exploring a real digital planetarium! Beautiful visuals and details. Great if you like astronomy or just want to relax while orbiting around the Solar System. And the Moon landing mini-games are fun!!

Very engaged developer. Looking forward to the development of this project.

Great game. Love the soundtrack and the landing challenges. Would love to see this expanded on. Godspeed my dude.