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@jaykrown@lemmy.world

2026-09-03 18:01 UTC

The first orbital racing game Slingshot Speeders now has cosmetics and an extreme difficulty rotating map and refueling system It’s free to play in browser without an account. Feel free to ask me any questions, happy to talk about it! The next update will be the Season Zero which won’t be wiped. I plan on creating many more maps through the in-game map making system once is fully live to ensure there’s plenty of challenges along with weeklies. slingshotspeeders.com/changelog

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  • @squaresinger@lemmy.world 2026-09-03 22:11

    I really like the idea. I played a bit and got feedback. First I opened it in Firefox on Android. It almost worked. Keyboard bindings worked, but scaling is messed up. It’s all super tiny. I then continued on PC. I miss a “advance time” feature. Especially on the easier maps you just don’t get a lot of momentum and being able to fast forward would be nice. R is too close to keys you need to play the game. More than once I accidentally touched R when I wanted E and it messed up a promising run. The ship is sooo tiny. It also looks the same in all directions, so it’s often really hard to see where it’s pointing. I wonder if instead of rotation+thrust it would be better to just WASD to accelerate the ship in screen direction. So W would always propell the ship towards the top of the screen. That way it also wouldn’t matter that the ship is so tiny. Other than that, it’s a pretty cool idea, I like it. Spaceflight Simulator meets The Expanse-style slingshot racing.

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