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Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

https://playstarfling.com
33•iceberger2001•2d ago

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vunderba•2d ago
Nice job. Consider allowing the use of a key (Z, spacebar, etc) in addition to the mouse.

Related but I played a similar orbital minigame a while back on Itch.io which has a bit of a 2D Mario Galaxy feel to it as well.

https://danceswithpixels.itch.io/orbital-slingshot

kokopelli•2d ago
This is great. Very addicting.
ericskiff•1h ago
Fun, but the way they fly doesn't quite match my intuition. Why would an object curve when I send it out on the tangent? Wouldn't that be a straight line unless it's affected by a different gravity well?
lemagedurage•25m ago
Yes, you have to imagine a much bigger star beneath the viewport.
muti•1h ago
Fun. Not sure if this applies on desktop, but on mobile the quick/fast/blazing/skip text often blocks vision of the ball making it harder than it should be to make combos
disillusioned•25m ago
This precisely.
JohnnyLarue•1h ago
I have never been worse at a game than I am at this one
lagniappe•52m ago
This thing is so fun. My best was 17, better than 94% :)
rikschennink•52m ago
Nice, enjoyable.

I did however expect the stars to attract my ship, that combined with the top down gravity vector made it less intuitive.

It also makes it feel like a game happening in earths atmosphere instead of space, it impacts the possible sense of scale.

Still fun :)

potatoproduct•43m ago
Good fun, my highest was 30, it took a while!
Uncorrelated•33m ago
I got 54, allegedly better than 99% of players. But I also note that a score of zero is apparently better than 32% of players.

Very fun.

karim79•31m ago
Brilliant game. Thank you so much for this.
Twirrim•22m ago
Fun, but dark grey text on a dark background? Bit hard to read a bunch of the text.

It also seems like there's gravity coming from off screen assets (or maybe it's the bottom of the screen?) causing the projectile to curve in unexpected ways, and not be captured as strongly by the gravity of the visible objects as I'd expect.

NooneAtAll3•11m ago
I don't see the "orbital" part. Ship flies in straight lines

Doesn't seem that hard, just a boredom endurance

foresterre•2m ago
Fun :)

Small idea for improvement: the "fast" text is often over the same space as the ball, which makes it harder to see where the ball would be going.

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Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

https://playstarfling.com
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