This game is very unique and inspiring. Lots of options (overwhelming at start) to shape the universe... Very accurate in its workings and its science (as far as I can tell, makes me wonder about the dev's backround) ^^!
Love how everything adapts and evolves organically. The style is very distinct and naturally GPU-focused - finally something non-peudo-photo-realistic to put the GPU to good use!
I like that, you deserve all the money I can and want to pay :D
PS: we may differ in some views, but there's one we easily can agree on: this simulation game is just AWESOME and a pure (physics) ART! :D
Thank you for saying all of this, I really appreciate it. I just want to tell you that the game will get one more free update before it goes commercial, and because you are a donator (this goes for any other donators), you will receive a code for the game when the paid version is released.
You will also be included in the credits of the game as a beta-test donator, and I guess I can share some of my backstory.
Everything began when I was 10 years old. I didn’t understand much at the time, but my sister died while giving birth. My mother had to take care of a premature baby while dealing with the loss of my sister the same sister who had shown me how to play games and use the internet back then.
I, on the other hand, didn’t fully realize the gravity of the situation. Within a few days, my world had changed. Nobody cared for me for about a month. I had to do many things by myself, and after that month they finally made some time for me so they could transfer me to a new school, since we had to move houses. Every morning I had to wake up at 6 a.m. to get to school for 7:50 a.m. (class started at exactly 8).
After the transfer, I had to share a room with my mom and my little brother the child my sister had given birth to. Being premature, he had several problems, and like any other child, he would cry at night. But because of his condition, it wasn’t just crying there were other issues. I had to escape that room because I was getting no more than four hours of sleep per night, which is terrible for a 10-year-old.
So I went to my brother’s room, where they put me on the floor with just a mattress next to the heater. If you have ever been in constant contact with something that hot for a long time, your body tries to reduce its temperature by burning calories. That might be fine for a short while, but I was in contact with that heater for a year and four months. During that time, I was sick at least 60% of the time because my immune system didn’t have the resources to defend me properly.
The breaking point that finally got me my own room was when I fell off a bicycle going 35 km/h and broke a bone.
After I recovered, my big brother got me a laptop for my birthday. I was happy, but the store scammed us. The label said it had 16 GB of RAM and 4 GB of VRAM, but in reality it only had 4 GB of RAM because someone had stolen the other sticks.
I had wanted a laptop since I was 7 years old. It wasn’t that my parents couldn’t afford one they could. They just thought it would make me a bad student and I would become stupid. For reference, they had a net worth of more than one million dollars.
I’m sorry, I can’t continue. It’s 2:30 a.m. and I’m crying my eyes out over the bad childhood I had. I had no friends, nobody who cared, and for most of my childhood I lived in a forest with no human contact other than my parents and the people who visited their restaurant. I didn’t speak the language they spoke, so I’m not sure if that even counts as human contact.
I’m sorry that you had to hear my backstory. I know nobody really cares.
Your backstory is ... harsh. To put it mildly. Thank you for the trust. And if people knew, like I (and everyone reading it later), they would care even more. We usually just don't know... pain can't be seen...
While I can't relate to all of it, and won't share too much, I can tell you this: I can relate to a many things in your story. Especially the harsher parts. It may not be comforting now, as the past can't be changed, but there are others much like you, who have gone through lots of sh*t in their lives. And made it! So sharing is a way to bond, to find others who understand and can even help you.
You went through all this and still managed to make something good and artistic. You should keep that spirit and one day it will help you deal with the trauma of the past (maybe trough a game?). YOU made it! Keep going, it's getting better :D
I, care. Im a big fan of your game😄 you had a harsh childhood, but you say that no one cared, You are very wrong!!I care about you, people who play your games care about you, jesus,cares about you. God cares about you. P.S , please fix the name thing
hiiii, I've found a bug :). I can't get past the Mass step of the tutorial. I edited the mass of the planet in all the ways i could but it didn't let me go to the next step, nor go to the previous or skip the tutorial.
Besides of that, I really like the idea of this game and im very exited to play it. i've been searching for a game like this forever, thanke you :3
Sorry to ask but in which sim did you get the problem (sim like solar system, sandbox, ect).
Also it's great to hear that you like the game because I have spend way too many hours on it and if you want you can join the Discord for extra content (voting for features, videos/images for the next update)
hi, it was with the solar sistem. I tried the tutorial again today with the sandbox and I didn't have any problem. (english isn't my first language sorry if you don't understand something )
Love the game! But when I try the 'Available on Google Play' link here, it doesn't work. Where can I download it for mobile? Also, amazing game — keep working on it, don’t give up!
When you go to the link it should say that you can join by clicking the join group BTW I'm sorry that the .apk is not on but Google Play send me an email that if I continue to give the game out side of Google Play they will ban my developer account
This is a really cool project - it's incredibly difficult to achieve a convincing physics simulation, let alone astrophysics, so what you've done so far is incredible for a free indie title! I enjoyed creating my own little system and seeing what made it hurtle into the void.
I think you're on the right track in terms of development around thinking about the parameters for the simulation and how the physics and the properties of planets and systems can do their own thing. Simulations are fun because they have an emergent quality and players like me enjoy tinkering around with things and seeing how things react. It can be tricky trying to think about how all these properties integrate meaningfully and provide feedback to the player, whilst not getting too lost in the impossible depth of physics theory!
Congrats and great work on building this game to the state that it is. I enjoyed playing it a bunch.
What version of Windows are you using? Are you getting an error message? Can you describe what happens when you try to open the file?
And also what do you the archive. This thing has only one file and that's the exe and the pck file exported inside of the exe file and I just tested it on my PC with Windows 11 there is no errors and no problems.
Will you folks ever add barycenters so we can have well made binaries that stay in place? or the ability to lock a planet's velocity to keep it in place
Hey so I did a vote in the Discord server and they said that it's a time for a rework too so thank you for letting me. Also join so you can see the upcoming updates and vote for the future of the game :
I don't have money for a Windows Key Store License so yes that does popup the first you open it. If you feel like its a virus just play on web and the game has been downloaded my over 10k people that have not even said anything about a virus so....
guys, just so yall can know, do not install the windows version if you're playing by the oficcial itch.io app, use HTML zip instead, if you're installing by the site idk if the windows version is gonna work, this tutorial helped you? glad for you
Over 100 people have downloaded the windows build on the official app so can you please tell me what's wrong so I can fix it in the next update. Also thank you for bringing that up with me.
welp, some devices are glitching, when i installed the windows version my app just glitched and a black screen appeared, i couldn't acess the itch.io app anymore and when i saw why, the game was conflicting with the itch.io app files, the screen unfrezed then i installed the HTML zip version and it worked, and i got a conclusion, the windows version doesn't work on the itch.io app only in site, so you're welcome i hope you fix this glitch, also this game is incredible
У тебя iPhone? Потому что если у тебя iPhone, то игра не запустится, и просто чтобы ты знал, что изображения старые, а игра стала на 1000% лучше, и я думаю о порте на iPhone.
Bro I'm going to be real, I don't know how you managed to do it, like in every game mode there is a tutorial, if you have not done it least once. So can you please tell tell how did you skip it.
That's fine everybody has preferences the only thing that I care about is making the game a better version of it self and the people that are playing it to like it even more.
In the "About the game" section I typed about 9 months ago that I need testers for Google Play and I still need testers. (You CAN'T release a game on Google Play without 15 testers to play the game for over 14 days straight)
How to become a tester: I need only your email to add you to the Play Console
yes, that works but is inconvenient, makes the program feel stiff instead of facilitating my intention.
Sometimes, it’s hard to click the planet, I zoomed way out to admire the view and then got stuck until I zoomed alllllll the way back in… see what I mean… it’s not good UX ¯\(ツ)/¯
add more functions like a "show more" button and a automatic orbit functionality because for players that don't know how to use the y and x axis, it will be very hard for them to create a system
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time to fully break ur game lol
This game is very unique and inspiring.
Lots of options (overwhelming at start) to shape the universe...
Very accurate in its workings and its science (as far as I can tell, makes me wonder about the dev's backround) ^^!
Love how everything adapts and evolves organically.
The style is very distinct and naturally GPU-focused - finally something non-peudo-photo-realistic to put the GPU to good use!
I like that, you deserve all the money I can and want to pay :D
PS: we may differ in some views, but there's one we easily can agree on: this simulation game is just AWESOME and a pure (physics) ART! :D
Hey there,
Thank you for saying all of this, I really appreciate it.
I just want to tell you that the game will get one more free update before it goes commercial, and because you are a donator (this goes for any other donators), you will receive a code for the game when the paid version is released.
You will also be included in the credits of the game as a beta-test donator, and I guess I can share some of my backstory.
Everything began when I was 10 years old. I didn’t understand much at the time, but my sister died while giving birth. My mother had to take care of a premature baby while dealing with the loss of my sister the same sister who had shown me how to play games and use the internet back then.
I, on the other hand, didn’t fully realize the gravity of the situation. Within a few days, my world had changed. Nobody cared for me for about a month. I had to do many things by myself, and after that month they finally made some time for me so they could transfer me to a new school, since we had to move houses. Every morning I had to wake up at 6 a.m. to get to school for 7:50 a.m. (class started at exactly 8).
After the transfer, I had to share a room with my mom and my little brother the child my sister had given birth to. Being premature, he had several problems, and like any other child, he would cry at night. But because of his condition, it wasn’t just crying there were other issues. I had to escape that room because I was getting no more than four hours of sleep per night, which is terrible for a 10-year-old.
So I went to my brother’s room, where they put me on the floor with just a mattress next to the heater. If you have ever been in constant contact with something that hot for a long time, your body tries to reduce its temperature by burning calories. That might be fine for a short while, but I was in contact with that heater for a year and four months. During that time, I was sick at least 60% of the time because my immune system didn’t have the resources to defend me properly.
The breaking point that finally got me my own room was when I fell off a bicycle going 35 km/h and broke a bone.
After I recovered, my big brother got me a laptop for my birthday. I was happy, but the store scammed us. The label said it had 16 GB of RAM and 4 GB of VRAM, but in reality it only had 4 GB of RAM because someone had stolen the other sticks.
I had wanted a laptop since I was 7 years old. It wasn’t that my parents couldn’t afford one they could. They just thought it would make me a bad student and I would become stupid. For reference, they had a net worth of more than one million dollars.
I’m sorry, I can’t continue. It’s 2:30 a.m. and I’m crying my eyes out over the bad childhood I had. I had no friends, nobody who cared, and for most of my childhood I lived in a forest with no human contact other than my parents and the people who visited their restaurant. I didn’t speak the language they spoke, so I’m not sure if that even counts as human contact.
I’m sorry that you had to hear my backstory. I know nobody really cares.
Your backstory is ... harsh. To put it mildly. Thank you for the trust.
And if people knew, like I (and everyone reading it later), they would care even more.
We usually just don't know... pain can't be seen...
While I can't relate to all of it, and won't share too much, I can tell you this: I can relate to a many things in your story. Especially the harsher parts. It may not be comforting now, as the past can't be changed, but there are others much like you, who have gone through lots of sh*t in their lives. And made it! So sharing is a way to bond, to find others who understand and can even help you.
You went through all this and still managed to make something good and artistic. You should keep that spirit and one day it will help you deal with the trauma of the past (maybe trough a game?). YOU made it! Keep going, it's getting better :D
Thank you so much. Not even a single person has ever said that they care
I, care. Im a big fan of your game😄 you had a harsh childhood, but you say that no one cared, You are very wrong!!I care about you, people who play your games care about you, jesus,cares about you. God cares about you. P.S , please fix the name thing
the .exe opens with black screen
Can you tell me what are your specs of your PC?
The Windows you are you using?
And have you tried reinstalling the game or restarting your PC?
Also thank you for Contacting me!
What you mean not compatible on your device??? You a 🤡 for that #
hiiii, I've found a bug :). I can't get past the Mass step of the tutorial. I edited the mass of the planet in all the ways i could but it didn't let me go to the next step, nor go to the previous or skip the tutorial.
Besides of that, I really like the idea of this game and im very exited to play it. i've been searching for a game like this forever, thanke you :3
Sorry to ask but in which sim did you get the problem (sim like solar system, sandbox, ect).
Also it's great to hear that you like the game because I have spend way too many hours on it and if you want you can join the Discord for extra content (voting for features, videos/images for the next update)
hi, it was with the solar sistem. I tried the tutorial again today with the sandbox and I didn't have any problem. (english isn't my first language sorry if you don't understand something )
Thanke you for everything :)
Love the game! But when I try the 'Available on Google Play' link here, it doesn't work. Where can I download it for mobile? Also, amazing game — keep working on it, don’t give up!
When you go to the link it should say that you can join by clicking the join group BTW I'm sorry that the .apk is not on but Google Play send me an email that if I continue to give the game out side of Google Play they will ban my developer account
https://groups.google.com/g/solarsandbox
my game crash everytime i try to open it
You are the 3rd person to say that can you please do me a favor and do:
C+R
Type CMD
Get the path of the folder and copy it
Then you do cd path to the folder
And the you type the name of the game.
This is a really cool project - it's incredibly difficult to achieve a convincing physics simulation, let alone astrophysics, so what you've done so far is incredible for a free indie title! I enjoyed creating my own little system and seeing what made it hurtle into the void.
I think you're on the right track in terms of development around thinking about the parameters for the simulation and how the physics and the properties of planets and systems can do their own thing. Simulations are fun because they have an emergent quality and players like me enjoy tinkering around with things and seeing how things react. It can be tricky trying to think about how all these properties integrate meaningfully and provide feedback to the player, whilst not getting too lost in the impossible depth of physics theory!
Congrats and great work on building this game to the state that it is. I enjoyed playing it a bunch.
W game but we need Pluto
Pluto is in the game but for some reason it's in the last place of the selector also thank you
w game
thank you
the archive for windows not funtion
Thank you for saying that but can you just tell me what archive your talking about so I can check it out.
The solarsandbox.exe is not funtion in my windows, pls review the archive...
me too it doesnt work
What version of Windows are you using?
Are you getting an error message?
Can you describe what happens when you try to open the file?
And also what do you the archive. This thing has only one file and that's the exe and the pck file exported inside of the exe file and I just tested it on my PC with Windows 11 there is no errors and no problems.
love it but the glow doesn't show for some reason
Thank you also the glow does not work on browser. I had a message there for the glow but well it looked out of place so I removed it
What a great game, quite unique in gameplay and graphics. The art style is simple but attractive GG!
I tried opening it on Arch Linux, but it gave me a segmentation fault:
Godot Engine v4.4.1.stable.official.49a5bc7b6 - https://godotengine.org
ERROR: Required extension VK_KHR_surface not found.
at: _initialize_instance_extensions (drivers/vulkan/rendering_context_driver_vulkan.cpp:487)
ERROR: Condition "err != OK" is true. Returning: err
at: initialize (drivers/vulkan/rendering_context_driver_vulkan.cpp:928)
WARNING: Your video card drivers seem not to support the required Vulkan version, switching to OpenGL 3.
at: DisplayServerX11 (platform/linuxbsd/x11/display_server_x11.cpp:6795)
Inconsistent value (1) for DRI_PRIME. Should be < 1 (GPU devices count). Using: 0
WARNING: The separate rendering thread feature is experimental. Feel free to try it since it will eventually become a stable feature.
However, bear in mind that at the moment it can lead to project crashes or instability.
So, unless you want to test the engine, set the "rendering/driver/threads/thread_model" project setting to 'Safe'.
at: setup2 (main/main.cpp:3139)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
i want venus or mars terraforming
It's kinda funny that you are guessing the next update and your right.
thank u for putting u hard effort and time in this game,love the game fr
Will you folks ever add barycenters so we can have well made binaries that stay in place? or the ability to lock a planet's velocity to keep it in place
Next update I will add stable binaries for you.
ay awesome!!
Hey so I did a vote in the Discord server and they said that it's a time for a rework too so thank you for letting me. Also join so you can see the upcoming updates and vote for the future of the game :
I like this game
Thank you!
"Windows protected your PC" 🤔
I don't have money for a Windows Key Store License so yes that does popup the first you open it. If you feel like its a virus just play on web and the game has been downloaded my over 10k people that have not even said anything about a virus so....
nice game
thank you!
Hey i was in a discord call with you while you where working on this!
I remember you.
why did you say it so ominously lol
guys, just so yall can know, do not install the windows version if you're playing by the oficcial itch.io app, use HTML zip instead, if you're installing by the site idk if the windows version is gonna work, this tutorial helped you? glad for you
Over 100 people have downloaded the windows build on the official app so can you please tell me what's wrong so I can fix it in the next update. Also thank you for bringing that up with me.
welp, some devices are glitching, when i installed the windows version my app just glitched and a black screen appeared, i couldn't acess the itch.io app anymore and when i saw why, the game was conflicting with the itch.io app files, the screen unfrezed then i installed the HTML zip version and it worked, and i got a conclusion, the windows version doesn't work on the itch.io app only in site, so you're welcome i hope you fix this glitch, also this game is incredible
Come on man, minecraft font? You know you can easily draw pixel font yourself, right... There's even a default one on windows, if i remember correctly
Bro minecraft didnt invent that font...
i can't play one of teh free mod-
BrahOk so first how about we go to Google translate. You translate your problem so I can fix it.
У меня игра вылетает но думаю по скриншотам игра офигенная особенно я люблю песочницы
У тебя iPhone? Потому что если у тебя iPhone, то игра не запустится, и просто чтобы ты знал, что изображения старые, а игра стала на 1000% лучше, и я думаю о порте на iPhone.
У меня Windows
yo i spent the money and didn't get the game :(
Contact me on Discord so I can give you a key for the game or just type the first 4 letters of your email.
Wrong game sorry. But best of luck with you're goal.
as a wise man once said, "Space is cool..."
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i accidentally started the game before the tutorial XD
Bro I'm going to be real, I don't know how you managed to do it, like in every game mode there is a tutorial, if you have not done it least once. So can you please tell tell how did you skip it.
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I only done it once
ahh ok thanks for the info.
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i usually play open land games and not play sandbox often
That's fine everybody has preferences the only thing that I care about is making the game a better version of it self and the people that are playing it to like it even more.
esta bueno, tiene pontencia
I hope they add astronauts or some life in space like aliens etc :D
Does the mobile version not have controller support? It's not working for me.
On what device are you on?
Retroid Pocket 4 Pro
Solar Sandbox Gameplay
https://youtu.be/EAXnmC2boD4
Why is the Google Play page for it not loading? Did it get taken down?
In the "About the game" section I typed about 9 months ago that I need testers for Google Play and I still need testers. (You CAN'T release a game on Google Play without 15 testers to play the game for over 14 days straight)
How to become a tester: I need only your email to add you to the Play Console
Oh, how should I send you my email?
Well if you want to play the verified version from Google Play yes, but the game is literally the same on itch and on the Play Store
BTW on discord there is a channel for the emails or you can just DM me
Oh I see, thanks
I would love to be a tester, I do hobby game dev so I have a bit of understanding - let me know where I can send you my email
Just join the Discord you get access to sneak peeks,beta testing and suggesting features(you can still suggest here)
Overall: Actually pretty cool, I liked it.
Cons:
Pros:
click the planet again to de-lock out of the planet also I'm working on a update about the menu (need to fix android first)
yes, that works but is inconvenient, makes the program feel stiff instead of facilitating my intention. Sometimes, it’s hard to click the planet, I zoomed way out to admire the view and then got stuck until I zoomed alllllll the way back in… see what I mean… it’s not good UX ¯\(ツ)/¯
I think the link to the discord has expired or something
I fixed it
also make it so it can support more devices, i know this is a lot to ask but i know you can do it
The other device versions are on Discord
add more functions like a "show more" button and a automatic orbit functionality because for players that don't know how to use the y and x axis, it will be very hard for them to create a system
It's already in the new update that I'm working on
it's done
nice, but maybe fix Venus up a little
I will, give me a day or two because I'm making performance changes