Neat, and nice audio, but I wish it were a little more forgiving. Eg. Combos or surviving several jumps might collect "lives" that recover your last orbit if you screw up.

Might also be fun if you encountered powerups as you explore deeper into the map (eg. gravity attraction, project path, etc), or even got to pick between forks in the route. The trail art reminds me of Out There.

Hmm, you can't fall back to a previous orbit. Those don't detect your presence

Looks and plays quite nicely. I don't know how well it represents the real slingshot physics, but it's quite fun.

I've made a similar little web game based on Lunar Lander, check it out!

https://landed.theelderscripts.com/

Game is fun, sure the mechanics aren't like real transfers but this appears to be a quick reflex challenge, not a lesson in astrophysics. The only gripe I have is all the flashes and distractions if I go to fast. I don't want ANY extra visuals when I'm concentrating on rapid shots.

I've been looking for a game from the "flash era" that's incredibly similar to this one! It was "fling-this-wad-of-duct-tape-to-clog-the-black-hole" as a metaphor, but I forget the name. It had similar "orbit" dynamics, but the entire game was setting the initial angle/velocity and then the orbits just 'did their thing' from there. This looks really cool! I'm already up to 11 as my best!

If you like this, you will for sure love the game "12 Orbits"!

I don't see the "orbital" part. Ship flies in straight lines

Doesn't seem that hard, just a boredom endurance

Fun :)

Small idea for improvement: the "fast" text is often over the same space as the ball, which makes it harder to see where the ball would be going.

Good fun! Spacebar should launch, r should reset, maybe I'm imagining it, but it's a lot slower and thus easier on my phone than my MBP.

If I miss but land back in the old gravitational field, I'd like a retry

Reminds me a little of an old game called Slingshot[0], I think it implemented the idea much better as you actually had to slingshot and consider gravity. Someone should turn it into a browser game, would be much more fun than this.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/slingshot-game/