Controls

Left-click on any revolving planet to focus on it.
Right-click to refocus on the sun, or just left-click the sun to stop focusing on the selected planet.

If playing on Windows or Mac OS, press Alt + F4 or Cmd + Q to stop the app.

About

This is for the submission of the assignment for the 2023 game development specialization course for Michigan State University on Coursera.

The default textures for the sun, Earth, and skybox have been swapped for customized textures found online. 

Additional planets are added, some of which having newer sounds:

  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Mars
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn

Other planets originally intended to be added were omitted due to size and performance constraints during testing.

This Unity project was built on a Windows 10 development environment. So the Windows application should run fine. If the Mac OSX version doesn't work, please let me know!

Credits:

Overall submission created by me, Poila Pan.

Additional textures from Solar System Scope: https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/

Additional texture from OpenGameArt: https://opengameart.org/content/space-skyboxes-0

Newer sound effects from OpenGameArt

Download

Download
Solar System Simulation for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.zip 29 MB
Download
Solar System Simulation for Mac OSX.zip 29 MB

Install instructions

Windows 10 (32 or 64 bit)

Download the "Solar System Simulation for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.zip" file, and extract to a location of your choice.
Double-click "Solar System Simulation on Unity.exe" to run the app.

Mac OSX

Download the "Solar System Simulation for Mac OSX.zip" file and extract to a location of your choice.
Run the extracted "mac_osx.app" file.
If there is any prompt to not run the app, go to System Settings > Security and enable that file permissions to run.

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