tiny galaxy (itch) (nomes)

[Z]/[X] - Forward/Reverse (hold)
[Arrow keys]/[WASD] - Steering

This is a little tech demo for an idea floating around in my head for a while: a game about home, spaceships, and long journeys.

I'm not actively working on that project, but some small experiments around ideas I had for it and wanted to share the results.

This small demo is the result of experimenting with:

• a planetary shader supporting three styles of planet (based on the shaders from Deep Fold's beautiful Pixel Planet Generator but re-engineered using ray-traced spheres based on this tutorial),
• a random planet generator, which uses a custom implementation of Tracery to generate small descriptions of each planet, and
• unrealistic spaceship physics that play with a sense of scale.