a space project

Welcome to A Space Project. A project involving space...

Get a realistic sense of the cosmic scale; there's literally dozens of planets and traveling between them could take up to entire minutes! Enjoy Galactic Space Exploration in a sate-of-the-art, hyper-realistic physics simulation of the entire universe!

Game is in pre-alpha prototype phase. More of a sandbox than a game, there is not much content yet

Features

• Fly around the starsystem in a spaceship
• Faster Than Light Travel! (yeah it's real, cuz like quantum anti-dark matter n' stuff yo)
• Discover a plethora of astronomical bodies including:
  • Unary star systems, Binary star systems, Trinary star systems, and even Quadri... quatro? quadrino-ary?
  • lonely rogue planets who lost their sun :(
  • Destructible asteroids using cutting edge - t r i ▲ n g l e s -
• Fight against other ship (disabled for now)
  • combat broken placeholder AI while I figure out the rest of the engine.
• Land on and explore planets (in theory, probably out of scope):
  • The planets are flat (ha, take that Round Earthers!)
    • Actually the planets are donuts (ha, take that Flat Earthers!)
• Controller Support (works in game but not menus)
  • hot plugging!
• Sound?
  • there is no sound in the vacuum of space silly
• Unit Tests?
  • pfft... my code is perfect. the first time. every time.
• Developer Tools (in progress)
• Cross-Platform Desktop
  • Linux, Windows, OSX
  • Official Steam Deck support!
• Feature Creep and Unrealistic Scope!
  • Multiplayer is out of current scope :(

Controls

Control	Desktop	Controller/Gamepad
Aim	Mouse	Left Stick
Movement	WASD	Left Stick + L1/R1
Boost	Space	A
Brakes	S	X
Attack: Shoot	Left-Click	RT
Defense: Shield	Shift	LT
Defense: Dodge (Barrel Roll)	Double Tap A/D	Double Tap R1/L1
Interact	E	D-Pad Down
Cycle Equiped Tool	Q	D-Pad Right
Toggle HyperDrive	Hold 1	Hold B
Enter/Exit vehicle	G	Y
Zoom	Scroll Wheel	Right JoyStick
Reset Zoom	Middle-Click	Click in Right stick
Toggle Map State	M
Toggle HUD	H
Full screen	F11
Menu (Pause)	Escape	Start
Vsync	F8
ECS Debug Viewer	F9
Misc debug keys	too lazy to document, won't be permanent

Current Status

A work in progress engine toy sandbox thing: scaffolding for what will hopefully one day be a game. The code is bit rough in some places, littered with todo's, half-baked features, and the occasional bug. For more documentation and current status see:

wiki: https://github.com/0XDE57/SpaceProject/wiki

project: https://github.com/users/0XDE57/projects/1

devlog: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/devember-2022-a-space-project-open-source-space-game

Special thanks to Level1Techs for hosting Devember 2022 and providing: 5900x + x570 mobo + 32GB RAM!

License

Apache 2.0: see LICENSE.md

Credit appreciated.

Libraries

• libGDX
• Box2D
• Ashley
• OpenSimplexNoise
• VisUI
• TuningFork

Building

General

• Set up your Development Environment: https://libgdx.com/wiki/start/setup
• Import project in IDE of choice using gradle.
• If a "File not found" error occurs, check the working directory. Append "\assets" to the working directory in run configurations.

IntelliJ

• Desktop
  • create Run Configuration
  • main class = com.spaceproject.desktop.DesktopLauncher
  • use classpath of module 'desktop'
  • working directory = ...\SpaceProject\assets
    • (must ensure working directory includes assets so data like fonts, particles, shaders, configs can be loaded)
  • build and run!