Planet Gravitation

[SCARD]

Hi Folks!

I've made a little planet gravitation stuff. This version is not working perfectly but demonstrates pretty well what i want to do.
Just wanted to share it to the lövely wörld. Have fun with it.

Controls are left, right, up down or w,a,s,d to move.

Comments and ideas for improvement are welcome.


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In version 0.2 I've added the functionallity described in post#4. Feels much better now!
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Version 0.3 start in fullscreen at highest resolution
You now can spawn planets and spheres that are influenced by the gravity by clicking.
You can zoom by using the mousewheel.
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Version 0.4 lets you delete objects in the world by pressing the spacebutton
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[mickeyjm]

Nice. No love.physics i think/hope. You certainly did better than when I once tried something similar (I got as far as calculating the closest gravitational mass and gave up)

Only problem I've seen is that for some reason the bottom right planet has no gravity.

BTW what are those black blobs?

[Taehl]

Looks neat so far. Having to repeatedly tap the controls to move instead of holding them was a bit odd. I enjoyed it more when I modified all three planets to be the same size, so you could orbit better and not just always land on the big one.

May I suggest a small addition to your code?

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function love.keypressed(k)
	if k == "escape" then love.event.quit() end
end

[SCARD]

In another version i have another variable per gravitable, which specifies the current planet, so only the current planet spawns a gravity, but when you jump every planet spawns a gravity. maybe i''ll add this functionality to this little program. You have to know that i and 4 other friends do this project for university as a software project.

When our progress is at a certain level i will post more of this.
I think this could be the biggest project ever made with löve

Looks neat so far. Having to repeatedly tap the controls to move instead of holding them was a bit odd. I enjoyed it more when I modified all three planets to be the same size, so you could orbit better and not just always land on the big one.

May I suggest a small addition to your code?

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function love.keypressed(k)
	if k == "escape" then love.event.quit() end
end

Well this is just a little demo and as already said it doesn't work too good but controles feel indeed very odd, you're right.
One question from my side: is love.event.push("quit") deprecated?

Nice. No love.physics i think/hope. You certainly did better than when I once tried something similar (I got as far as calculating the closest gravitational mass and gave up)

Only problem I've seen is that for some reason the bottom right planet has no gravity.

BTW what are those black blobs?

- love.physics is used to do the collisions and add forces
- the bottom right planet has at my computer a gravity
- The black blobs are just some more little balls, that are influenced by the gravity of the 3 planets

[Taehl]

So what kind of a game is this going to be? Some kind of multi-planet platformer? A space-sim?

[SCARD]

So what kind of a game is this going to be? Some kind of multi-planet platformer? A space-sim?

Basically it will be Super Mario Galaxy in 2D, i hope
But more of the actual game when we are at a certain level.
Maybe we release a demo with a little test level when everything works fine!

[SCARD]

Added new functionallity!

[SCARD]

Added version 0.3

[TheScriptan]

This Planet Gravitation is AWESOME! Keep it up, maybe from this some kinda game will come?

[Germanunkol]

This is really nice

My 2 cents: Don't make a normal "platformer" with different graphics out of it. The part I liked the most was the adding/deleting of the objects. You should think about making that a game mechanic.
Example: You have a certain amount of "points" which you can transform into objects by clicking. Using this, you need to reach places. But you only have so many points you can use - the larger the object you create, the more points if takes...

Or something along those lines.