That was super fun to play, it was pretty easy but super satisfying to smash that sun!

I like the game a lot and it was very fun to play. And while it didn't make it any less fun and it's, probably not important for an arcade game compared to a simulation, I got very confused about speed of the asteroid in different orbits.

The longer orbit should take longer to complete, but it seemed in your game any orbit distance was taking same ~9 seconds to complete. While it was not as noticeable with other planets, that made asteroid you play move at snail pace close to the sun and zoom around when far away, which should be the other way around.

Take following with a handful of salt as I might be getting it wrong myself, but roughly the idea is that the formula for a circular orbit's speed is gravitational constant G multiplied by the summary mass of both objects divided by radius of the orbit: GM/r.

So the shorter the radius of your orbit the higher the gravity force affecting the object which means it has to go faster to stay in that orbit and not fall. If the orbit radius is longer the gravity force is smaller and it takes less speed to stay in that orbit.

But still, from gameplay perspective it would just mean that you would have to reduce your orbit radius to overtake instead of increasing it, so great job anyway!

Short and sweet! The graphics are nice and most importantly the game is very fun! I dont think thats how the solar system works though :D.

Fun game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 38 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjIIPVrvYI