Star Cycle

In 5 Billion years our planet is going to be absorbed by the sun..

And what if we would do a small game talking about this ?

This was made in a personnal game jam, 48hours, over a weekend.

It's a metaphor of the entropy, by clicking to level up a planet, you add energy in your solar system, creating a disorder and making the sun grow bigger. This game is here to question how big things are in our universe and talk about the fear of feeling small.

I went for a planet simulation, looking at the work of "Daniel Linssen" on "Planetarium". I also got inspired by "Mining Station", an android idle game.

How to play :

Drag around and click. Slide from left to right the solar system and interact with it.

Once you unlock a planet, click on it to generate life on this planet.

Goal :

Reach the last level of the last planet to get the end animation.

Features :

• You can create life by clicking on the planet, it adds a life form on the planet and multiplies your income.
• Sun growing and eating up planets.
• Randomly generated planets, moons, asteroid feilds, clouds.
• Randomly generated names.
• Planet dying when too close to the sun.
• Confort zone of the solar system, if a planet is too close, it dries up and no water can be find on the surface, if it's too far, water just covers allmost the whole planet.
• Quote generator to make you smarter ;) .
• Used fibonatchi numbers to create all the game, ratios, idle mecanics.
• END animation ! Will you reach it ?

Missing :

• I tried during the last moment of the game jam to add a saving system, unfortunatly it doesn't work proprelly sometimes..
• The sun grows but sometimes doesn't grow as fast as wanted..
• The planet should not reset after dying but they could..
• Once you finish the game, it should restart with a new cycle but sometimes it turns out to have some unpredicted behavior..
• Sounds..