Orbital (Demo)
A downloadable game
This is a small demo thing (its not really a demo, just a sandbox that you'll get bored of in a few minutes) I made for the Playdate game console, where you navigate a ship around planets and their gravitational fields.
Also, its surprisingly hard to get into a stable orbit.
I might finish it the future, but likely not.
Feel free to steal code :)
(also, if you want to play this you either need the actual console, or the free official simulator! https://play.date/dev/)
The controls are pretty simple: crank to change direction, up and down for forward and backwards thrust.
Download
Install instructions
To play the demo in the simulator, you can just unzip the folder and drag and drop it into the simulator.
To upload it to a playdate console, you should be able to use the simulator when its plugged in, or you could use the playdate website
For the source code, there's a bunch of helpful dev stuff at https://play.date/dev/.
Comments
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Would like to have a go. Sideloading says the bundleid is missing from the pdxinfo.
Oh, I’ll have to check that, though I think it worked for me. Hopefully I’ll fix it today!
Should be fixed!
Sorry for the inconvenience.
It doesn't require a bundleID if you're directly loading it onto the device like I did when making the game, and as this is my first Playdate game, I didn't realize.
Nice, It's very satisfying!