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Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

49 points • by trwhite • today at 6:06 PM • 15 comments • view on HN

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fullstackwife • today at 7:53 PM

Very nice, being busy with sth, and I could not go through all levels and reached the one with star(sun?), but the topic of gravity assist manouver was always inspiring for me, so I enjoy this game, congrats on making it!

adamesque • today at 7:13 PM

Fun idea, but kind of maddening that I can click and hold to add mass to a hole but if i overshoot, i can't do anything subtract mass or delete a hole.

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YeahThisIsMe • today at 6:53 PM

This is the year of old browser (and/or flash) games making a comeback in some form.

manlymuppet • today at 7:43 PM

Never ignored a tutorial faster.

(This is a compliment.)

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iamwil • today at 7:06 PM

This is kind of a cool concept. It's like Space Golfing.

Another alternative is to make it like a turn-based Scorched Earth (Mother of all games), where you can either

1. launch asteroid size projectiles across star systems in a field of stars and black holes to it each other.

2. launch projectiles that then place black holes (perhaps either by timeout or signal--taking into account the speed of light!) to change the field.

It's a good start!

jonplackett • today at 6:54 PM

It’s nice but clearly designed for desktop

It’s a mobile world. This would be so nice as a proper touch enabled game

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Razengan • today at 7:43 PM

Feedback:

- It would be nice to be able to manually key in the matter; on Safari desktop clicking uses up matter too quickly to set precisely.

- Key to speed up time once running.

mihaaly • today at 7:40 PM

I love it! : )

mkatx • today at 7:01 PM

Nice, a lot of fun!