HomeStar Games started in 2000 in a small office space in the spare bedroom of our home in Shoreline, Washington. It was founded on the dream of sharing with you our passion for space exploration and love for playing traditional board and card games with family and friends.

Our mission at HomeStar Games is to help foster a new generation of space exploration enthusiasts by creating space science games that are educational and fun to play. We aim to achieve this objective by providing you with the highest quality space science educational games available. We will also contribute a portion of the proceeds from our games to several nonprofit space advocacy organizations and their scholarship funds.

Planetaire™-The Grand Tour card game is the first release of four new space science games that are currently under testing and production by HomeStar Games. We anticipate releasing our new games over the next five years. So please stay tuned for more out of this world fun and games from HomeStar!

HomeStar Games is dedicated to supporting the future of space exploration through our contributions to several nonprofit space advocacy organizations. We have chosen The Planetary Society of Pasadena, California to receive 10% of the Net Proceeds from the sale of each Planetaire™-The Grand Tour card game. So when you purchase Planetaire™, a portion of the purchase price goes to help The Planetary Society promote exploration of the Solar System.

The Planetary Society was founded in 1979 by the late Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Lou Friedman. It is a public-interest organization dedicated to planetary exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life. The Society has over 100,000 members in over 140 countries, making it one of the largest space-interest groups on the planet.

You can check out what The Planetary Society is all about and join the adventure by clicking here or call the Society at 626-793-5100.

Planetaire™-The Grand Tour card game was created by the founder of HomeStar Games, Brad Curtis. Born at the dawn of the space age, Brad has grown up with a deep abiding passion for astronomy, space exploration, and manned space flight.

Brad is an avid collector of space memorabilia and owns nearly every game about astronomy and space ever produced. He invented his first space science game when he was 10 years old and has created several games about football and auto racing. In the last seven years he has devoted his creative energies to inventing four games about space science, of which, Planetaire™ is the first to be brought to market.

He says, “Having played games about space my whole life, I have found that most of them were either targeted at young children or required prior knowledge about space and science to advance in the game. This is certainly one form of education. I wanted to create space science games that were visually appealing, where the emphasis was on having fun, and learning was a byproduct of play. It is our objective to produce quality games with strategic game play that appeals to players of all age groups and knowledge levels. Hopefully, we have achieved this with Planetaire™.”

After graduating from the University of Washington, Brad served as the Exploration Geologist for the Inupiat Eskimos in Arctic, Alaska. There he led some of the first private mineral exploration programs across the north flank of the Brooks Range Mountains. He later served as Land and Resource Manager for the Athabascan Natives of south central Alaska, before returning home to Seattle to pursue his dream of creating and producing educational books and games.

A longtime member of The Planetary Society, the National Space Society, The Mars Society, and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Brad lives with his wife of over 25 years, Vicki, in Shoreline, Washington.