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Starlight is a game of puzzling celestial perspective -Time Waster
When it comes to Time Wasters, my favorites are non-stressful puzzlers. Something to make my brain work up a sweat, but not so much so that it's going to have me swearing a blue streak.
Starlight is exactly that kind of diversion. Here's how it works: you're presented a field of stars and connecting lines. Move your mouse around the play area and the field rotates - when you do it just right, you'll wind up with a constellation-like image.
The challenges range from something as simple as a bird to more complex images like the Eiffel Tower. Sometimes you'll quickly happen upon the solution. Other times, not so much. You'll be slowly panning around with your mouse wondering just what you're supposed to be seeing.
Apart from the casual 'relax' mode, there are two timed modes if you want to challenge yourself. In case you're wondering, I'm not aware that this constellation actually occurs anywhere in the night sky.
D'oh!
Starlight is exactly that kind of diversion. Here's how it works: you're presented a field of stars and connecting lines. Move your mouse around the play area and the field rotates - when you do it just right, you'll wind up with a constellation-like image.
The challenges range from something as simple as a bird to more complex images like the Eiffel Tower. Sometimes you'll quickly happen upon the solution. Other times, not so much. You'll be slowly panning around with your mouse wondering just what you're supposed to be seeing.
Apart from the casual 'relax' mode, there are two timed modes if you want to challenge yourself. In case you're wondering, I'm not aware that this constellation actually occurs anywhere in the night sky.
D'oh!
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Subscribe to commentssRcDec 14th 2009 1:30PM
That "Relax Mode" went by way too fast
I suppose it doesn't help being a 3D modeler and being able to tell exactly where to move the mouse instantly based on the movement of the points and lines, even without knowing what I was even looking at when it finished the level a few times...
TheOneAndOnlyJHDec 14th 2009 11:01PM
Same here.. Too much 3D modeling in AutoCAD. And by seeing the convergent direction, it was all to easy to rotate it to the foreground.
Relaxing though. I think it was the music. Oh, and the highest score is capped at 12,800, because the high score list was populated with it and nothing higher, so even though I played relaxed mode, I think I got all I'm going to get out of it.
levidosDec 17th 2009 5:01PM
easy for me, too, although i'm not doing any kind of 3D modelling. just like an installation wizard - next next next :)
cute game, nice graphics btw