Caelium Alpha
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:waning_crescent_moon: Caelium Alpha is a digital orrery sandbox.
An orrery is a model of the solar system; small worlds you can carry with you. Make your own little planetary system orrery by adding planets, moons, and adjusting properties. Then marvel at the possibilities in the universe :)
The LD38 version has no moons, no audio, no auto-padding, and no random star names. The Post-LD version has these features. There was a multi-planet spawning bug in the LD38 edition, but I am apparently allowed to fix it, so it is fixed in both editions.
You should play the original LD version in order to review the game here, but I also insist that you play the improved Post-LD version because I wish to hear your feedback. Thanks!
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- Left Shift (also Right Shift in the post-LD version): Hold down to move faster
- R: Zoom In
- F: Zoom Out
- 4: Reset Zoom
- Right Click: Select a Star or Planet (or deselect by right clicking nothing)
- Esc: Quit
- :globe_with_meridians: Project page on my blog
- :notebook: Postmortem Post
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- Add planets to the star, and adjust their properties (moons not available)
- Right clicking an astronomical body enables UI for adjusting its properties
- Properties include color, radius, axial speed (rotation), and orbital speed (revolution)
- Stars and planets will spawn with random surface texture (not adjustable at this time)
- Planar camera movement with fisheye-style zoom (I admit this is not the best zoom method)
- Holding Left-Shift will make the camera move a little faster
- Sound effects from Glitchmachines added
- Add moons to each planet, and adjust their properties
- Moons will spawn with random surface texture (not adjustable at this time)
- Automatic padding (AP) between every astronomical body, fully adjustable as a new property
- AP includes inner padding, which distances an astronomical body from the nearest sub-body
- And AP also includes outer padding, which is only applicable to planets, which controls the distance between the furthest moon and the next neighboring planet
- Guarantee that most stars spawned will have a unique name
- Planet and moon names are based off stars (just like real exoplanets)
- Camera speeds adjusted to go much faster by default
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- Planet Textures: texturesforplanets.com
- Moon Textures: Robert Stein III
- Anurati Font: Emmeran Richard
- Rezland Font (only used in the LD38 version): Fraser Davidson
- Space Icons (used in Title and UI): freepik.com
- Mouse Cursors (Normal & Clicked): Muharrem Fevzi Çelik from the Noun Project
- Purple Space Nebula Skybox: TL Multimedia
- Hail Particles Pack: Luke Peek
For the Post-LD Edition:
- Font - Giant Robot Army: Gabor Vad
- Music - Interrupted Voices: Stephen Tanksley
- Sound effects: Glitchmachines
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Feedback Friends
An orrery is a model of the solar system; small worlds you can carry with you. Make your own little planetary system orrery by adding planets, moons, and adjusting properties. Then marvel at the possibilities in the universe :)
The LD38 version has no moons, no audio, no auto-padding, and no random star names. The Post-LD version has these features. There was a multi-planet spawning bug in the LD38 edition, but I am apparently allowed to fix it, so it is fixed in both editions.
You should play the original LD version in order to review the game here, but I also insist that you play the improved Post-LD version because I wish to hear your feedback. Thanks!
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Controls
- WASD or Arrow Keys: Move- Left Shift (also Right Shift in the post-LD version): Hold down to move faster
- R: Zoom In
- F: Zoom Out
- 4: Reset Zoom
- Right Click: Select a Star or Planet (or deselect by right clicking nothing)
- Esc: Quit
Downloads & Links
- :desktop: Desktop (Win/Mac/Linux) downloads available on itch.io (both original and post-LD)- :globe_with_meridians: Project page on my blog
- :notebook: Postmortem Post
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Features
LD38 Edition:
- Start off with a star and adjust its properties (radius, color, etc.)- Add planets to the star, and adjust their properties (moons not available)
- Right clicking an astronomical body enables UI for adjusting its properties
- Properties include color, radius, axial speed (rotation), and orbital speed (revolution)
- Stars and planets will spawn with random surface texture (not adjustable at this time)
- Planar camera movement with fisheye-style zoom (I admit this is not the best zoom method)
- Holding Left-Shift will make the camera move a little faster
Added to Post-LD Edition:
- Music from Stephen Tanksley added- Sound effects from Glitchmachines added
- Add moons to each planet, and adjust their properties
- Moons will spawn with random surface texture (not adjustable at this time)
- Automatic padding (AP) between every astronomical body, fully adjustable as a new property
- AP includes inner padding, which distances an astronomical body from the nearest sub-body
- And AP also includes outer padding, which is only applicable to planets, which controls the distance between the furthest moon and the next neighboring planet
- Guarantee that most stars spawned will have a unique name
- Planet and moon names are based off stars (just like real exoplanets)
- Camera speeds adjusted to go much faster by default
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Credits
- Sun Textures: James Hastings-Trew & Inove- Planet Textures: texturesforplanets.com
- Moon Textures: Robert Stein III
- Anurati Font: Emmeran Richard
- Rezland Font (only used in the LD38 version): Fraser Davidson
- Space Icons (used in Title and UI): freepik.com
- Mouse Cursors (Normal & Clicked): Muharrem Fevzi Çelik from the Noun Project
- Purple Space Nebula Skybox: TL Multimedia
- Hail Particles Pack: Luke Peek
For the Post-LD Edition:
- Font - Giant Robot Army: Gabor Vad
- Music - Interrupted Voices: Stephen Tanksley
- Sound effects: Glitchmachines
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Feedback Friends