Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager User Reviews

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Update it more pls

The multiplayer client does not match the server version. Please at least get it in line with the desktop version

GAME TO HARD

I can’t get past tutorial, and sandbox mode is less like sandbox and more like game over. Please fix both tutorial and sandbox.

Good game

Good game but most extended missions are bugged and keep repeating itself

What amazing dev!! Years and still updating it!!

Love you guys.

Thank you for keeping my mind sharp and trained. It transfers over to real life skills.

I know it’s NOT slithering updating this game, that’s just the publisher. Love you Polar Motion Studios.

Tip:
Look into how you can create a more, faster version of this game, keep the same challenges, add more animated graphics, basically more sizzle for the visuals, and bring it over to Nintendo Switch... hot cakes that system right now! Go investigate.
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More needed

They should add space shuttles or Space stations, other than that it is a good game.

Fun, but limited

I enjoyed playing this game, but don't expect much replay-ability after your third game.

Bad design for iOS

If I want to interact like a PC I'll use one. Less than 2% of all app developers know how to code for AND affectively use a "touch screen" device!

They all think and develop still in a PC design mentality with buttons to push to exit or touching little arrows to page through something, et cetera, etc. Use the bloody touch gestures built into iOS for crying out loud!

Then this developer uses blue font on varying shades of blue background making reading unnecessarily difficult text.

If you can't design in the iOS world, stay in the PC world.
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Good, room for improvement

I would utilise Metal to add better, more fluid animation to all missions, not the antiquated stills used currently. Addition of fully rendered 3D models of all rockets, satellites, and spacecraft would be really educational. Maybe even 3D interior models too. Using the 3D models during mission sequences would improve the realism. The addition of customisable missions would be welcome as well.
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Great game! Very addicting.

Very fun game, I like how you race against the computer. I really hope the developers think about updating this and putting in like a race to build a moon base or even Mars and beyond! Lots of update potential to expand the game and keep your customer base playing! Would even buy expansions as an In game app purchase this is so addicting and fun to play!
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Great game

When I was a kid my favourite game was Buzz Aldrin's race into space. This game is just as wonderful, it's a different take however it still involves those nail biting moments hoping your mission is a success. Lovely artwork, great use of animated stills. Five stars!

Flawed but wonderful

There really should be more modern missions the to attempt but first stability needs to be improved. The game is crippled by freezes, crashes and game-ending glitched buttons.

Great with room to improve

For an armchair general or manager, a truly fun game in the era when turn based strategy has all but disappeared. The game requires management of funding, personnel, time, and (most challenging) risk. For a space fan or a management program nerd, a real treat.
That said, I do have 2 criticisms. 1) The game could use a little more animation (the vintage space race audio is cool and all, but this is the 21st century). 2) The game simulates the challenges of many real (and proposed) space missions. The game could easily be adapted (or expanded) to include the Skylab program, Apollo-Soyuz, or the early Space Shuttle missions (and the related challenges of those programs) that fall in the timeframe of the game.
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Can't get past tutorial.

Game says I completed x-15, and I hadn't. Can't get past test flight of x-15. Preflight locks up... Love Apollo program. Excited for the concept. Buzz shouldn't have put his name to it...

Locks up in tutorial

I read reviews about this locking up, but I hoped after the update it would be better. It locks up during the tutorial at the part to select the X15 project. I think I'm done buying games this expensive, too much of a gamble, even though I would rather pay once and have no IAP. I'm just tired of bugs, patches that make more bugs, then the excuses.

iPad Air 2 using iOS 8.
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Has promise, but not ready for prime time!

This game is a great idea! It’s an updated version of Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space (BARIS) from the early Windows years. I played that game for 100s and 100s of hours. Visually it is very good, but it crashes, repeatedly. I expect to find a few bugs in a $0.99 app, but not one that cost $9.99. This game will be awesome for any space fan, once they fix all of the major bugs.

Please update it soon!
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Fantastic but Crashes

I've had this app for three days now. This would be a five star review except the game routinely stops recognizing button presses. Buttons will flash acknowledging a press, but then nothing will happen. At that point you can't save your progress and you're forced to completely close out of the program. Now I can't even load a game because it won't recognize button presses on the load screen. I can press anywhere else and it works, but it won't allow me to load a game. At this point I'm considering this a waste of money and will not recommend this app to anyone. Refunds should be available.
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Fantastic game, iPad battery is crying for mercy

I can't put this game down. Great mix of strategy and chance. Can't wait for more missions!

Very fun

It's a great game and I've only encountered one bug, if it is a bug. One of my engineers had a medical problem but never returned, then I noticed I could assign her to work on the rocket and when I did she came back. The game is very fun and interesting

Amazing!

There needs to be more educational sim games like this! The only problem I've found is the game freezes sometimes when closing programs.

Save often!

Bug free and Amazing

Great game, especially if you are 40-something like me and used to play BARIS on your 386 computer back in the early 90s. It is a true "manager" game and gets just enough into the details to satisfy. Can't wait for the ISS and Mars missions!!