Alien Hunt
An alien craft is hiding in our Solar System. The banner tells you where. Fly the planetarium to it, spot the ship, tap. 90 seconds on the clock.
What you'll do
You're inside our 3D planetarium. A tiny craft is parked behind one of the larger Solar System bodies — planets, dwarf planets, major moons, or a handful of named asteroids. The banner names the body. Pan, zoom, and rotate the view until you see the ship, then tap it. Find another. And another. Until time runs out.
What it trains
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Solar System geography — where each body actually sits, how big it is relative to its neighbours, and what it looks like rendered.
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Body recognition — Planets, Ceres, Pluto, the Galilean moons. The planetarium uses real shape models for the ones we have them for.
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3D navigation — orbiting a body, finding the right angle, judging where "behind" is in a rotating scene.
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Visual scanning — spotting a small bright object against a textured background. It's harder than it sounds.
How to prepare
1. Walk the planetarium first. Open the 3D planetarium and play with the controls. Get used to dragging to rotate, scrolling to zoom, the rhythm of the orbits. The hunt starts much easier when the controls are second nature.
2. Learn what the bodies look like. Know beforehand where the difficult Ceres is today. What nearby planet could help to find it?.
3. Don't forget the moons. The Galilean moons, Titan, Triton, and several smaller moons are all in the host pool. They're easy targets if you know where they orbit.
How to play
- Timer: 90 seconds, single round.
- Find: the banner names the host body. Navigate to it; the ship is parked nearby.
- Hit: tap or click the ship. +10 points, a new ship spawns immediately on a fresh random body.
- Miss: clicking empty space or the wrong body costs 10 seconds.
- End: time expires, your score is shown. No leaderboard yet — this one's just for fun.
Tips
- Read the banner first, then move. Lurching the view before you know where you're going wastes seconds.
- Zoom out to find the host body, zoom in to find the ship. Start wide, finish narrow.
- The ship is small but bright. Once you've seen one, you know what to scan for.
- Don't panic-click. A wrong tap is −10 seconds — that's two thirds of an easy find. Make sure before you tap.
About this game
Alien Hunt is the silliest game in the set, on purpose. It's an excuse to spend 90 seconds inside a beautifully rendered Solar System and notice how strange and varied its bodies are.
If you find yourself learning a moon's name or a dwarf planet's shape along the way — well, that's a happy accident.
Ninety seconds. Find as many ships as you can.
