Well, today got slightly "wasted" in GLSL shader coding and orbital system generation. (And some stellar mechanics) I'm not too unhappy about that though, I do LD to get better at programming after all.

So, the player's currently a bright white moon, with twin-stick like controls, and no physical interactions.
I'll fix that tomorrow.

Today's brought with it full system generation and orbital mechanics.
In the background, quite a lot of gameplay pieces are done, they just need to be hooked together now that I have system generation in place.
In the end, you'll have inter-system jump gates as well as rare direct-linked wormholes, and you'll use them to transport goods between planets. Starting from nothing and building your way up to a galactic trading fleet.

Some pictures from today, showing the graphical progress;

And a short video of the kind of systems that can be generated. (as well as a remaining shader bug)