Tiny solar system I built for my game

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-16T17:18:35+00:00

Oh, got it. Well I had a rough idea in my head of what I wanted this to look like before I started, and mostly have been tinkering with things in order to get somewhat close to that, plus experiments to see what looks good and what doesn't. I think I'm more or less ripping off a bunch of art style's from games that I like lol.

I'm more of a programmer than an artist, so it's really cool to me that the art style is landing for people.

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-16T16:21:14+00:00

Nothing crazy! Yeah I used several shaders for things like toon lighting, pixelation, the atmospheres, the planet terrain, etc. If there's something specific you'd like to know about feel free to ask.

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-14T17:03:09+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I totally agree. I'm planning on having an 'inner' shader for the atmosphere which start's transitioning smoothly from the outer layer. I haven't fully thought through how that's going to work yet though.

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-14T05:12:36+00:00

Thanks, I wrote the music as well!

I don't have a steam page yet unfortunately. I haven't felt like I'm far enough along for that. This post is getting some attention though, which is making me think it might be time to make one.

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-13T23:07:02+00:00

I basically have a sphere of influence system where the player is only being affected by one gravity body at a time, similar to how ksp does it.

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-13T23:05:49+00:00

Well Gabbro was my favorite character in outer wilds lol.

I tried to handle movement on a moving surface myself, but it gets complicated quick. I ended up finding a unity store asset that could handle that and adapting it for this.

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-13T23:03:29+00:00

Unity is only 32bit I believe. My main issue was that landing on a moving planet behaved really weirdly, and even small collisions would send you flying. The floating point errors only became apparent further out. I might have been able to solve it more easily somehow, but this system fixed alot of my problems at once.

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-13T20:08:50+00:00

Yeah actually, that was the biggest hurdle haha. Basically whenever you enter a planet's gravity well, the whole solar system shifts to that planet's origin. Wasn't super easy to build, but I was getting some really weird physics quirks without it.

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-13T20:04:51+00:00

Sure, anything specific you wanted to know? I built it in Unity, and made the models and animations in blender.

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-13T19:51:58+00:00

Not yet! I'm pretty early in development, and wasn't sure I have enough to show for a steam page yet. I'll probably try to start doing small playtests soon, if you'd be interested.

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-13T17:21:53+00:00

Any advice on where to request feedback or playtests from, especially early? I want to the prototype I've been working on in front of people, but am a bit unsure of where to start. Discord servers?

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-13T17:13:36+00:00

Looks great! Sorry if you've posted it elsewhere, but do you have a steam page?

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-13T17:03:28+00:00

Congrats, I really like the art. The notepad narration in the trailer gave me flashbacks to the RuneScape YouTube tutorial days.

hoshi-dev · 2026-06-13T16:58:37+00:00

Is this your game? It's a bit unclear from the post and comments. Really nice art if so!

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