Orbit Simulator Game

N-body gravity simulation to play with planet orbits, written in python using the arcade API.

Features:

• LMB: Drag and drop new planets into the simulation.
• MMB: Drag and drop particles into the simulation.
• D: Destroy the planets into particles.
• C: Destroy all particles.

Install and Run

Using conda

conda env create --file environment.yml conda activate orbit-sim

Using pip

pip install numpy arcade pyglet

Run the game

CD into the repository and run python orbit-sim

Implementation to-do list

• Custom gui elements:
  • slider
  • button
  • fps counter
  • planet counter
• Lifetime & destruction of particles
  • set the particle mass to zero
• Fix history color bug
• Slider for mass of planet
• Save / load the situationa into a file
• Main Menu