Starlite: Astronaut Rescue - Developed in Collaboration with NASA Reviews

I played this several months ago, and it was okay. It seems like there should be alot more, but as a very simple space walking sim it was okay. I got it on sale for less than $2US and overpaid. I'd say at retail 3/10 but if it ever went into a bundle so it was less than 50c US then it might be worth the easy 100% achievement.

Well its been a long time since I last playedd this game, actually went back and watched the blind play I recorded on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_He_ZAw-IA&feature=gp-n-y&google_comment_id=z13wjd4yqnecj5l4a04cjr14csqxs5daw14. I've not played it since that recording mostly because I hadn't seen any updates to it and even now going through and looking it seems like the game got canned because there are poeple who will write negative review about something if you don't end up getting to kill things because its 'not a game' in those cases. I for one enjoyed the game when it came out, and though math isn't my strongest skill didn't find it all that difficult to figure out the formula it gave you, I mean the calculator was right there and all it was was a division problem, not like we were trying to calculate the anti-sine cosine of a quadratic rectangular polygon or something. It felt like the game was ment for educational purposes and maybe be used in the class-room as a 'fun' way to teach kids maths and science. I could see that being the case if they added a few more scenarios/missions around that theme.

It looks good in the video and the notes seem intriguing, but for a a game that you play once, this should be free. It's an interesting educational tool that should be flushed out much more fully. The really is one task - determine the wavelength of a radio signal. The description makes it sound like there are more of these types of puzzles, but there aren't. Even the surrounding terrain, which is supposed to be from Curiosity, is very low-res and could easily be improved upon. All told, this looks like a 3D game kit's demo rather than a true game - even educational.

Very short, and it appears Project Whitecard is no longer active indeveloping any games at this time. This "game" is really a technology test, and should have never been sold. if they needed funding, they should have used Project Greenlight, and not sold game demos. This replaced my postitive review from Feb 2014 review back when it looked like Project Whitecard might atually extend this into a full game. Two years later, and nothing at all.... I was *supposed* to be part of their game testing team, and I'm yet to have any new released to test. Go figure. Just as well though, this company is dead to me now.

Get Moonbase Alpha. Its free and there is genuine peril.

Starlite: Astronaut Rescue is a 2002 tech demo for... oh wait. Nevermind. It's a "mini-adventure", sporting "Unity Terrain Mars Environment and Shadows, Futuristic advanced rover setting, advanced biosuit space suits, professional voice acting, realistic physics, original story and dialogue; and advanced robotic navigation". Every single one of the aforementioned features are over-exaggerated. This [i]cough[/i] game [i]cough[/i] is what you'd expect from one of those 100 Games on 1 Disc compilations for Windows 95. It's truly awful, but luckily it lasts only 15 minutes. My single positive for this title is that I encountered zero bugs/issues with my short experience. But, bugs/glitches are directly proportional to content, and so this is expected. In your short experience you'll control a rover and a human character. The looking action is awful, and movement is just as bad thanks to really terrible mouse acceleration. It feels as if the player is on ice. This problem is disguised as 'realistic physics'. It's annoying, plain and simple. Jumping and staying in the air for 2 seconds longer, and walking with longer strides is realistic physics. Not releasing the W key and waiting 2 more seconds for your character to come to a halt. Eugh. The story is a generic rescue mission, which is outlined in the title of the game. Going along as usual, someone had an accident, you have to find them by completing abstract tasks and finally you're rewarded by landing back at square one. There are a grand total of [b]three[/b] 6th grade maths problems that need to be solved, a 30 seconds crafting bit (with a cluttered interface) and then a short driving and positioning part with a rover. Oh and someone said some words at one point. Avoid.

A very short "point and click" game that seems to be the developers way of putting out a demo/teaser of their game before they release their bigger project out there. Its simple and has its flaws but personally I like the idea and could see myself trying out the future releases as this first one was quite relaxing and casual to playthrough. It only has one achievement and its for beating the game so nothing special you need to think about with this one. [b]Time to 100%:[/b] ~20 minutes

Did you ever dream of going into space.... becoming an Astronaut and being one of the first people to stop foot on mars? When you were younger did you put on a tin foil helmet, tie a sheet around your neck, and climb piles of dirty clothes pretending you were walking on Mars... If so you were probably super stoked for this game... I never did these things though ..... (shifting my eyes from side to side to hide the fact I'm not being honest)... I figured for less than a dollar I'd grab this game, try it out for the 20 or so minutes that people claimed I'd get from it, pat myself on the back for taking a trip to the red planet and feel joy. Unfortunately that didn't happen, this game glitches like crazy..... the first glitch was the work bench, it wouldn't let me combine the items.... After trying about 1000 different directions I decided to check on line to see what I was doing wrong.... I did nothing wrong the game just didn't want to register that I was crafting.... So I finally get past this glitch and nearly immediately afterward I'm hit with a puzzle.... awesome... I solved the puzzle using the calculator..... sigh... again the game glitches up. It's not the worst thing in the world, but gets kind of annoying that you need to continually restart from the beginning after every glitch.. I can't recommend this game at all, even for .89 cent. It's far too short and bug ridden to be worth a purchase at all. Save your money for something else. The only saving grace is the fact that buying the game will allow you to get it's 1 achievement fairly easily... Is that enough to purchase the game.... well ask yourself if the extention of your e-peen is worth whatever price the game is selling for... I don't personally think it is.

Woah, well, that was short! Looking over a few of the reviews, there's not a lot I can contribute to this. I was expecting something like TakeOnMars, but what this is, seems to be a short demonstrator for, a generic 'mission'-based physics/maths tutorial for kids, themed around planetary exploration. You're cast in the role of "The Commander" of a two-man crew (but the other dude vanishes halfway through), and have to rescue an astronaut who's crashed on the other side of the hill by figuring out how to get there using some trigonometry... Except Trig's probably a bit too tricky, so all the game has you do is a few divisions on a calculator, and the game pretends to do the trig for you... I can see where they were going with it, and I hope they can clean this up and add some more missions, but I have to say, I can't really recommend it to anyone: The play length is ~5 minutes, if that. All the assets are there: Models, texture maps, voices, a GUI, etc... But it's all rough and unfinished, and given where the pilot 'crashes', I felt I could probably just walk there, rather than go through all the rigmarole of triangulating positions. No, I can't, in my heart, recommend this to anyone, I'm sorry. If you want to play astronaut, play Space Engineers, or TakeOnMars. This looks like a late-90s attempt at a 3d demo / maths tutorial. If it was far more polished, and had a couple of missions, then perhaps I'd give it a thumbs-up, but nobody should really pay money for this, sorry :(

A 20-minute look into the bleak future of United States space exploration if we continue cutting NASA's budget and failing to educate our citizens in math and science compared to other countries. It's a little-known fact that, during the development of Starlite: Astronaut Rescue, highly intelligent individuals who once helped put man on the moon were forced to simulate having no scientific education. The result is a game with physics that are all wrong and only 20 minutes of plodding, unrealistic content—all they could manage to create under these conditions before giving up. A real eye-opener, and a future none of us want to live in.