Osmos and other space machanic sims

[AgaPoppa]

Hi! I have applied my nascent rocketry knowledge (acquired exclusively via a few days with KSP) to another game with which I am enthralled: Osmos HD - and I'm completely amazed to find that the ballistics still work! There are only Level Based hoop jumps in that game, applying orbital mechanics to propel & steer a "galactic mote" through various challenges. But accelerating in the right direction - and at the right speed, timing, and using an economic amount of force - to alter your flight path becomes very, very intuitive, after having had my Kerbal perform a midflight burn course correction or three.

Osmos HD is not a rival for KSP, btw - only a vastly different (and cool) application of arguably universal math and mechanics; but I wonder if there are any other geeky apps/games/sims that utilize the same synapses as these two games - which I am finding to be way good for my meager brains!

Please share anything (games or otherwise) of a similar bent, & I'll go back to flinging my Kerbals off this rock (while munching on Fig Newtons)...

I wonder what real rocket scientists say, when a problem is too simple? "Well...it ain't brain surgery."?

[tom1499]

Yeah, I quite enjoyed those levels in Osmos. Took me about 5 seconds to realize what was going on though. There was that game on Android that came out, everyone said it was like 2D ksp. Also 'Curiosity: The Mars Mission' is a fun and free Android game. My Kindle unfortunately lost its root and I can't seem to re-root so I cannot use Google play! Oh noes!

[Holo]

Space Agency is free, and is a lot like Kerbal Space Program.

[AgaPoppa]

gah! 0.23 is gonna produce an attention gravity-well, for me! Gotta love the ongoing development (and +1 to its' community/fora antecedents).

srsly though - wish there was an electronic whale mix, in-game Or even a dynamic, layered background, like Child of Eden, that Mizuguchi Xbox game.

Agreed on the one-key Osmos (which I flatter myself I have glimpsed the method of, w/out having quite pulled it off, in actuality). Still, tidy & beautiful game.

More generally, I hope that KSP, et al, are riding a big meme wave, which - fingers-crossed - is the harbinger of our species heading back into RL cosmic exploration. Space is the oldest black!

I'll definitely check out the android toys, for mobility's sake - and my kids play with the kerbalizer, occasionally (meh, imo)