Planet B-Minus press kit
Earth has 75 years. A strategy game on a real 3D map of our neighbouring stars: research the drives, scan the worlds and send the first people out before the Sun turns.
Download the press kit (zip, 4 MB)
Fact sheet
About the game
In 2091 the Sun's flares stop behaving, and Earth has until 2166. There is no perfect second Earth within reach, only worlds that are a little too cold, too heavy, too dry or too far. The player runs the effort: what to research, what to build, which worlds to scan, who goes, and how to keep the colonies alive. A run ends with an epilogue and a report card.
Features
- A real 3D map: 119 planets, moons, stars and small bodies in the Solar System and 25 other star systems, with NASA JPL orbits and measured distances.
- 32 research projects grounded in real science, from nuclear thermal rockets (Mars in 5 months) to fusion pulse (Alpha Centauri in 147 years).
- Scans, probes and landers turn dots on the map into dossiers.
- Launch plans with honest odds; ships fly on the map for real years.
- Colonies that face exposure, storms and shortages; haulers that bring supplies home.
- 75 years from 2091 to 2166, with pause and three speeds.
Screenshots
From the current build, iPhone size. Full resolution in the zip.
Logo and art
Art, data and AI
Planet orbits follow NASA JPL data and the nearby stars are placed at their measured distances. Solar System surfaces use maps made from spacecraft data (Solar System Scope, CC BY 4.0; NASA/JPL-Caltech; NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI). No one has photographed the surface of a planet around another star, so exoplanet surfaces are artist impressions generated with AI (Google Gemini) from each world's measured data, and the game labels them as impressions.
About Iron Buffalo Studios
An independent game studio in Houston, Texas, also making Epochfall, Epochfall: Dynasties and Fantasy × AI. ironbuffalostudios.com