A Space Game with Gravity

The animation above is from a prototype for a gravity-based space game I wrote some years back, to see how the play would feel. It can get pretty chaotic at times, as you can see here, but overall it's a pretty fun little game/simulation combination. Everything exerts a pull on everything else, so the ships and shots orbit the planet, and the ships can even orbit each other. Shooting a ship on the other side of the planet is tricky because of the curved path the shot will take (not to mention the motion of both ships!).

This big animated gif is likely not the best way to show a video on the web these days, but hopefully it gives a feel for it without killing your browser.

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