It’s about time. About 2.5 billion years a minute.
PLAYED WITH
TEN FINGERS.
GROUNDED IN
REAL PHYSICS.
Starlife is a hands-on astrophysics puzzle for your tablet or phone. Push clouds of gas with your fingers, condense them into stars, and solve multitouch, science-grounded puzzles about how stars are born, live, and die. Shift your frame of reference from static to dynamic; the full life of stars from beginning to end.
Every number traces back to real physics. A star's mass sets its color, its lifetime, and the way it dies. Stars age on a visible timescale, leaving white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes behind. And nothing you do is ever lost. Rewind all the way to the beginning, like a restaurant at the end of the universe.
touch the stars.
Designed for touchscreens first. The control at your fingertips may surprise you.
Multi-touch
Condense gas into a star with a finger. Or many fingers. Hold longer, gather more gas, and produce a monster.
Ignite
Orbit
Your second star will orbit the first with a gesture. Three is a party...
Rewind
Time itself is a tool. Revert the chaos. There is no game over, only rewind.
REAL PHYSICS, REAL outcomes.
Every star conveys what we know about real stellar physics. Color, relative size, phases, outcomes.
Accurate
Modeled on existing stars in the sky. Luyten's Star, Sirius, Eta Carinae and more, with references in-game.
Reference Stars
Keep track of your discoveries in a living catalogue. Explore all the variations with a touch of a finger.
The Codex
Real Morgan-Keenan spectral types with real science information, explained.
Classified
IT'S ABOUT TIME
Watch accurate stellar phenomena play out in seconds. Protostellar discs, ignition, mass shedding, phase shifts.
The Life of a Star
Pause the simulation and inspect anything. Something slipped through your fingers? No problem.
Hold It
Use the timeline to give yourself another chance or to find out what happened. It may even help complete the goals.
It’s Not Over
Game-seconds and real-years, side by side, in case you find yourself losing track of time.
Pace Yourself
Sign up for the Test Flight beta on iOS.
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