WhoOwnsTheStars

Explore the impact of Low Earth Orbit satellites (Such as the upcoming Starlink Constellation) on amateur astrophotography in this short web game demo.  Your goal is to snap timelapse pictures of the night sky during the brief windows where no satellites will be in orbit. This game blends science fact with opinion, so please come to your own conclusions based on the evidence.

This game was created as a submission for a UCI Physics 20B: Cosmology Midterm Class Project, and recycles the planet Earth model system from a previous game of mine, Professor Maren & The Aqueous Stones. This game has an updated day-night system and a new skybox for you to take photos of in the game.

Controls:

WASD or Arrow Keys to move around the planet

Mouse Scroll to zoom in and out

Press Enter to advance text boxes

Left Click to place your telescope

Hold Space to expose the camera film to the sky, release it to lock in your photo