A massive star is rapidly gaining mass... Your only hope is to "Run" "Out" of "Space" good luck runner

This is a space "runner" type game where a central "star" is increasing in size exponentially. The runner (player, red dot) must build up speed by circling around planets, direction controlled by A and D keys. The short red line emerging from the runner indicates current velocity, which may differ from direction of acceleration. All bodies are involved in gravitational calculations, which means planets interact with one another in proportion to their sizes and densities. The star, though, is fixed at the origin of the "galaxy". The runner is free under the gravity system when off-planet, except for the thrusters. Unfortunately I ran out of time to try and add a graphical indication of the thruster direction, but know that when in space acceleration will always be towards the top of the screen. On planet surface, acceleration only happens in tangent to the planet's surface, and the view is fixed so "down" is always towards the planet. This means there are some sharp camera movements at the transition between on and off planet, but this is better than a fixed viewport, which was making me dizzy :)

(EDIT) CONTROLS:

On-planet: - (A) to accelerate LEFT (CCW) - (D) to accelerate RIGHT (CW) - (SPACE) to jump (Build up speed first!)

Off-planet: - (LMB/Mouse 1) to apply thruster (towards TOP) - (A)/(D) to rotate view in respective directions - (SPACE) will place you on surface of planet when VERY near to its surface (hardly necessary, same effect as just hitting the surface)

General: - (ESC) to exit to menu/quit from menu - (ENTER) to start new game from menu

I think this is most of the info relevant to playing this game. There is no score, and no objective. There is only one ending, which is somewhat of an inevitability (much like life? :] ). Still, have fun and please tell me what you think!

xox (edited) gameplay video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV4jnlRogk

Linux and Windows build java jar download below, Java 9 may be required (I say may because I have not tested with Java 8, anything earlier will certainly not work, though if you have Java 8 and would like to try building it yourself, this may be an option too. I don't believe I have used any language features not present in Java 8, but I only have 9 on my systems) Maven project file can be compiled for other OSs, may try to get other platform specific builds out

Many global settings can be modified if you chose to compile the source yourself. These settings are stored in Settings.java Modifying these settings may result in more balanced gameplay. I did not have much time to fine tune, though all settings are within a reasonable ballpark of playability. I'm considering a post-compo version with the added feature of in-menu customization. "RUNNER" settings affect player attributes. If you want to customize gameplay, these are the settings you will most likely want to change. Most other settings affect the mechanics of the physics system more than anything, which can be interesting but is tough to know how it will affect gameplay. If you tweak these settings, let me know! I'd love to hear what sorts of results you may get.

Source can be compiled by opening the source directory as a maven project in eclipse, and running as maven build with goal argument: "assembly:single"

Known bugs:

• will crash after running too long on one load, due to an exception I forgot to handle. Only happens when all the planets are gone, which takes a little while

• windows build seemed to ignore vsync (at least on my laptop) which is not horribly problematic but can cause choppiness

UPDATE: tweaks to global constants and bugfix in text renderer