Good race!

You can view my previous post https://lemmy.world/post/50602921

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The new snake map is a little bit of everything, pushing, pulling, moving, static. I still haven't found the best path. Thanks to everyone who played last time, your feedback helped shape what it is today.

A plan I have in the future is to pay homage to "Spacewar! (1962)" and add a PvP 1v1 battle mode around a gravitation well.

As an experiment to see if I can just rapidly cultivate it in a tiny area. It's been growing like crazy and I haven't needed to do basically anything.

This is a notice to record any past runs you may want to hold on to. This next version will involve fundamental changes to the way acceleration works, given the rocket equation, and how less fuel in your ship means less mass, thus more acceleration. Along with the afterburner, this should result in highly strategic fuel usage and longevity to the fundamental architecture given that it is true to physics.

The tightness of the green win circle really determines a lot of the difficulty. Getting inside a really thin orbit is much harder. This should probably be Medium instead of Easy.

Points for style

If I delete my post, I want it deleted, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?

So why, when I delete a post, I see "undelete"? Who was the genius who thought of this idea as being a good one?

Thanks.

On my client side I won, but the server detected a collision. The snake map turns out to be an amazing way to test this.

Hopefully the purple orbit makes it a bit easier to match your orbit and adjust it. Probably going to be one of the hardest challenges in the game, but also one of the most rewarding!

As far as past recordings go and the leaderboard, they will have to be wiped given the way recordings worked previously they didn't save their current state variables. So just a reminder this is an experimental pre-alpha test build!

It's official, the game now has mobile touch screen support. The UI will be refined over time to be more user friendly and intuitive, but currently it's in a functional state such that you can win through your phone.

Added a full replay system so you can easy rewind, pause, and fast forward in replay mode! Please try to break everything!

Touch screen support coming soon™

Simulating over 1000 gravitational bodies interacting with each other in the browser from real in game play perspective, with the lowest 1% drops being around 58 FPS. This proves that this foundation is scalable and will allow for much more interesting courses in the future.