Galaxy Formation

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About this game

SUMMARY

Galaxy Formation is a multi-platform educational app depicting how dark matter particles in the universe clump together over billions of years to form things like stars, planets and galaxies. The app does this with a lite, real-time simulation of thousands of n-body particles that are attracted by gravitational forces that form galaxies when combined.

You can try out the live WebGL Browser version here:
WebGL: https://johnchoi313.github.io/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/

For better performance, you can download the native versions for each platform here:

Android: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Other%20Platforms/Android.zip
Mac: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Other%20Platforms/Mac.zip
Windows: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Other%20Platforms/Windows.zip
Linux: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Other%20Platforms/Linux.zip
WebGL: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Other%20Platforms/WebGL.zip

Get the full Galaxy Formation PDF documentation here:
PDF: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Documentation/Galaxy-Formation-Documentation.pdf

Find more screenshots here:
Images: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Images

And check out a full video playthrough here:
Video: https://youtu.be/eDyD2gc5nng

CREDITS:

Lead Developer: John Choi.
Learn more about me here: https://www.johnchoi313.com/

Inspired by Volker Springel's Gadget Simulation Code.
Learn more about Gadget here: https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/gadget/

Contributors
Doyee Byun
Luka Jelenak
Patrick LaChance
Peter Lee
Raphael Segal
Ruihao Ye
Rupert Croft

Additional Resources
3D Black Hole Shader - Mikołaj Bystrzyński
Lite FPS Counter - OmniSAR Technologies
Lunar Mobile Console – SpaceMadness
FastMobileBloom – becomealittlegirl
Simple LUT Adjuster - Jeff Johnson
Float Music - Emily A. Sprague
Spacescape - Alex Peterson
UI Gradient – azixMcAze

Made possible with generous support from the National Science Foundation.

Ratings and reviews

It's so easy to think science, especially the Big Abstract Bits, is really complicated but I loved the way this app not only helped me understand much better than anything I have come across before, but feel pretty inspired about how amazing it all is. Sorry, cheesy, but true. Have a go!

It sucks when I try creating a new galaxy it get destroyed in seconds.

Playing around with your own universe... who knew making our own galaxies could be so relaxing...