I've been making some reasonable progress with Planetastic.
Actually I'm being a bit harsh on myself here, I only started this game 10 days ago, and I've already got the basic mechanics implemented and the first Alpha up on Google Play.
Today I started implementing the Challenge system. So I was playing "Out There" the other day and I realised my game doesn't have any variation from attempt to attempt so I thought I should spice things up a little bit by setting a series of challenges.
By challenges I mean things like:
- At least 3 Gas Giants,
- All planets within 4 AU
- 2 Planets supporting Life
that sort of thing.
I'm going to limit the number of challenges to 3 per system, but have enough so that each system has a different set of challenges.
I'll also still support the sandbox mode as it's just nice to throw planets together.
In other news I've created 3 of my own planets since I found a pretty neat GIMP tutorial on planet creation.
and here they are:
They're actually surprising simple to create so I'm planning to add a few more before I release the next version.
Here's a little screenie of one of them in action too.
