OFFSET

Check out NASA's latest educational game—OFFSET! Take matters into your own hands and help cut back on carbon emissions to slow the pace of global warming. Part pong, part resource-management, and 100% retro, this game is challenging, exciting, and educational. Players learn how the global carbon cycle works, about different sources of carbon, and about the ways alternative energy and reforestation can help offset those sources. And if a player wants to succeed, they will also learn the importance of having quick fingers and strong multitasking skills!

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Games	Free	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Reviews

Rotation issue
Aninnen

Same issue, downloaded the game, and the rotation is off. Not able to really play it.

Fun and educational!
thebestofools

Carbon, all different directions, all different speeds! Upgrade quick! Save those trees! Once you get the hang of the interface and come up with a strategy, you're hooked. Plus, at the end you get to learn more about carbon and it's effect on the planet. Gonna try for a perfect score now...

Fun!
JollyIo

I like it.

Wow!
Dante&Cake

Wowowowowowow...

I hate to be that guy.
K1M0

I'm all for raising the awareness of climate change and doing what we can do to help out the environment, but this game is horrible. Aside from moving the CO2 blocker across the screen, what am I supposed to? Slow response times when clicking the forest and even then, what is it supposed to represent? Unfortunately, the only people who will download this are the curious types of people who are already aware of the dangers of climate change and want to see how this will help. Unfortunately, It won't. If this what the Interns at Nasa/JPL are coding, then I at least hope that they are getting your coffee orders right... because this game just gave me cancer.

Ok NASA/JPL, you win ?
OhhiOjai

Can we just talk about the stinking CUTE the animation of this game is? Whoever made those characters, GO YOU. Is this a forecast of the awesome mobile games that NASA is going to launch (pun intended) because I really hope so! This is a really solid first release! ?

Game is pretty tough
Joe-Ray111

I've been trying to get my score over zero for about a half hour, it's really hard to tap everything that needs to be upgraded while trying to catch the co2 emissions. Let's hope we all don't fail at solving the climate crisis in real life as bad I'm failing right now on this game. If you take your eyes off the emissions for even a moment you might hit the 6C target and game over.

Fun game, not sure how to win
German reviewer

It works well, fun to play. The temperature level seems to never go down (hmmm... Maybe that's the point). Let just six of those molecules escape and it's game over. It is too fast for me to keep the carbon dioxides in. I'm not fast enough for a game like this. It ended up being too frustrating so I am removing it.

Ok, but needs improvement.
Bobana17lsw

I love the idea of this game but it needs work before anyone will really be able to enjoy it. The paddle slider gets stuck letting CO2 escape even though I tried to catch it. I cannot get the upgrade on the road to do anything no matter how much I tap it. In the end I always fail and my score is never over zero, we don't want to send the message that we can't stop climate change no matter what we do. It's a cute idea and could be a lot of fun with some work! I would love to see something like this get popular!