Independent game studio
Deep Sky Creations
- Explore the Universe.
- Create the Impossible.
Games, interactive worlds, and a lifelong obsession with what lies beyond. Built by a studio that also points a telescope at the real thing.
Games.
We create worlds.
Starhauler
Mine asteroids. Upgrade your ship. Survive the deep. A downloadable space mining RPG: mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, complete contracts, and survive the deep. View game/games/ is where every studio title lives, alongside the playable experiences built on this site's own catalogue and orbital mathematics — no install, no account for the simulator.
Open the portfolioSpace.
We explore this one.
- Original captures
Astrophotography Gallery
Original deep-sky photography, with the exposure and the gear recorded beside every frame. Open - Reference atlas
Wonders of the Universe
A catalogue of deep-sky objects, sourced from SIMBAD, NED and NASA rather than from memory. Open - Solar system
The Orrery
A live 3D solar system you can scrub through time. Real positions on any date you choose. Open - Observer setup
Your Sky
Set your location and the site answers for your sky: what is up tonight and how high it gets. Open
Why both.
The telescope came first. The compiler came second.
Deep Sky Creations started as somewhere to put photographs of things that are objectively too far away to matter — taken from a back garden in Michigan, under a sky that is nowhere near dark enough, over a lot of cold evenings. That work is still here and still running.
The games came out of the same habit. Wanting to understand a thing well enough to build a working model of it is the same impulse whether the thing is an asteroid field or a transfer orbit. It is why the launch simulator on this site runs actual patched-conics physics rather than an animation that looks about right, and why the trivia questions come out of the same catalogue that feeds the atlas.
Games are the future of the business. Space is where it came from. Neither is decoration for the other, and this site is being rebuilt to say so.
Explore the Universe. Create the Impossible.
Download what is out, read what is next, or go and look at the real thing. All three are the same studio.