Starship Simulator @Starship_Sim

Explore billions of distant, uncharted worlds on one of the most detailed starships ever made. [email protected] Press Kit: https://t.co/HvNA1qhQW8 starshipsimulator.co.uk Somerset. UK Joined May 2020

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@GeekyN8 @Indie_Gamer_01 @londongamesfest @TimelessGC I second New Game Plus, it's a great event with access to games, developers, and publishers galore. It's also part of the whole @londongamesfest So there's plenty on offer all week.

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2 weeks ago

Celestial Motion - All stars, planets and moons are now in motion, orbiting their respective centres of mass. They are in proper orbits, with orbital resonances, accurate rotations and tidal locking where relevant. This is a big milestone. Ship Orbits - Your vessel will now automatically be captured into orbit around celestial objects. When you approach a planet and exit FTL, the direction of your ship's nose will determine your orbital direction. You'll be placed in a perfectly circular orbit, and your orbital velocity will be accurate for your altitude. You are free to fly towards/away from the planet at sublight, and the orbit will update in real time. If you fly perpendicular to your orbit, the orbit's inclination will change accordingly. Station Orbit Sharing - This is the big one, and it makes pretty much everything else in the game possible. If you exit FTL next to something that is already in orbit, then you inherit that orbit regardless of your nose direction. All objects near one another are pooled and their physics states are moved together along the orbital track. As such, ships can fly around stations and one another, while also moving sideways at 7km/s. Essentially there are three physics layers for space travel. Celestial motion, orbital motion, and local motion. The celestial layer moves the planets, the orbital layer moves ships/stations along an orbital path, and the local layer allows ships to fly around freely while shooting projectiles at one another. All seamless, all invisible to the player. I can't overstate how much of a big deal this is. This means we can now add alien stations, other ships, creatures in space, or literally anything else that's orbiting something else. From here we can start building content!

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2 weeks ago

@jump_drive_flyr Thanks, Andy :)

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2 weeks ago

I know the demo is taking quite a while for this update but we are getting there. We needed to recreate the entire galaxy (Genesis), so that needed to take a little while. It has put us many months ahead in development, and we have some amazing things (scientifically!) in game now. 👇 The whole formation process from end-to-end is now fully simulated, including galactic metallicity regions, circumstellar disk formation/composition, disk evaporation, planetesimal formation, pebble accretion, orbit clearing, planetary collisions, moon formation (including collision events), gas accretion, planetary migration, and kuiper belts. O Class stars for example evaporate their circumstellar disks very quickly, stunting planetary formation, while M Class stars have much longer lived inner disks, resulting in rocky worlds crowding their inner regions. Each class of star now forms class-accurate systems. The net result of this is that gas giants are far more rare around lower mass stars, while A Class stars for example have a penchant for forming many Ice Giants. We also have multi-star systems now, which was actually an interesting solution to a too-many-gas-giants problem. We were capping gas giants at 13x Jupiter's mass, but once we removed that cap we found systems created brown dwarf companions more frequently, and gas giant distribution fell to match the peer-reviewed numbers. And of course we now have real constellations, as you can see from Orion in the attached screenshot.

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a month ago

@paulavaynshteyn We have the most amazing community. It's not even about the game anymore, it's about deep friendships.

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@PokeIndie Amazing game! @sub_rov store.steampowered.com/app/1648760/su…

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@drewwagar Goodluck! :)

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@CCreations69 Thanks but we create everything ourselves :)

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2 years ago

There are many great space sims out there. Some feature beautiful ship interiors, some have stunningly realistic galaxies, and others have impressive simulated ship systems. There's even software that allows you to soar through the cosmos seamlessly without any loading screens, but what the space sim genre lacks is a title that features all of the above. Until now, that is... Demo: steam.starshipsimulator.co.uk Discord: discord.gg/eDSQvpgdUX Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/starshipsimula… ( You can also buy the Kickstarter tier rewards here) #spacegame #VR #gaming #pcgames

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2 months ago

@crispytaytortot Congratulations!

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@alexhilton Haha will do! :)

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2 months ago

Flying into a Gas Giant (Volumetric Depth Layers Test) Gas giants are where you'll skim your fuel from in Starship Simulator, so we're keen for that experience to be epic every time. You'll also be able to fly down a few layers into the gas giant's atmosphere, because science! Each layer gets progressively darker and more fluid-like as you descend.

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2 months ago

@alexhilton Thank you!

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2 months ago

@elementbound The single-channel density map is baked from a climate model, which the ray marcher then uses to determine volume height. It extrudes upwards with a flat bottom. The gas giant interior sits underneath as pure 3D noise.

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2 months ago

As you've noticed, we have been very busy adding the volumetrics to the galaxy, and here is another! Volumetric Gas Giant Surface Flow Test (Timelapse)