It’s hard to explain how this ‘game’ (arthouse game? interactive experience?) makes you feel, but some of the comments from the download page start to get at it:
Smash moons into planets, create new stars, and build new worlds from spinning discs of debris. Explore our solar system in 3D or destroy everything you’ve created with a super massive black hole.
You can simulate and interact with:
- Our solar system: the 8 planets,160+ moons, and hundreds of asteroids
- Nearest 1000 stars to our Sun
- Our local group of galaxies
- An unlimited number of fictional scenarios
Tinker with your creation or sit back and watch the effects of gravity unfold. It’s fun, accessible, and easy to use.
The screencap above is from a simulation of two galaxies colliding. If that isn’t awesome, I don’t know what is.
It’s difficult to convey in a two-dimensional image, but you can spin around and fly through all these simulations as they happen. You can even use 3D-glasses if you have them. It’s like this episode of Radiolab put into practice. So good.
