A downloadable space simulator for Windows and Linux

How do rocket scientists make sure a space mission is successful?
They planet!

Welcome to tsjost's space program where you'll be in charge of successfully – hopefully – mounting your own space missions!

Features:

  • Directly control a spacecraft and explore different celestial bodies
  • Realistic n-body gravitation
  • Physically stable time acceleration
  • Built with in-house engine in C++ with OpenGL

This tech demo has been built to test the capabilities of the engine and make sure everything works properly and remains accurate & stable on interplanetary scales. Coming up next will be actual gameplay features!

Planned features:

  • Atmosphere & aerodynamic effects
  • Construct your own crafts, satellites, probes, rovers, and whatnot
  • Disembark and explore planets on foot
  • Hardcore mode
    • Write code to allow your vehicles to function autonomously
    • Interface with sensors, cameras, and the like in your code to gather telemetry to take action on & send back to mission control
    • Code what telemetry to receive and display on the monitors in front of your comfy chair in the mission control room
    • Antennas, signal delay, line of sight, etc
  • VR
  • Multiplayer?

Follow the development on Twitter and/or Discord!
https://twitter.com/tsjost

More information

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tsjost's space program Tech Demo #01 (Windows) 5 MB
Version 0.0.1 Mar 10, 2019
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tsjost's space program Tech Demo #01 (GNU+Linux) 5 MB
Version 0.0.1 Mar 10, 2019

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cuppajoeman160 days ago

I tried launching on manjaro, but it yielded: 

./hardcorespacesim: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

I tried doing a quick hack: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.6 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.5


Launching the game now threw more errors:

VERBOSE: Initialising SDL...
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open crocus: /home/ccn/Games/tsjostspaceprogram/bin/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.26' not found (required by /usr/lib/dri/crocus_dri.so) (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: crocus
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open crocus: /home/ccn/Games/tsjostspaceprogram/bin/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.26' not found (required by /usr/lib/dri/crocus_dri.so) (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: crocus
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /home/ccn/Games/tsjostspaceprogram/bin/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.26' not found (required by /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so) (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  152 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  109
  Current serial number in output stream:  110

So I gave up...

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