Thanks!

It definitelly looks nice, though the game play is IMHO what makes it fun or not.

do you have an algorithm for picking a photogenic angle for your game?

Nah, the planets are just shown as 3D objects in the game.

The little icons as the one I linked were made by a special game mode for development which I call the PlanetPhotoStudio that just lets me manually rotate the planet 3D object and take a snapshot. Since the planet surfaces are pre-generated using an external program (“Grand Designer”, highly recommended) and only some results are chosen, it’s fine to also make those icons during development time.

It’s actually less hassle to create a “photo studio” (especially since most of the work for it is also used in the main game) and do it manually for each planet like that than to try and come up with an algorithm for “how photogenic a 2D view of a planet looks”.

Because the computer-generated images that symbolize said other planets are generally done with some shitty-shit stupid noise algorithm to generate the surface rather than anything decent (well, at least it’s not uniform noise), whilst the ones for planet Earth just use existing map data for the Earth surface.

As it so happens I’ve been working on a game that has planets, so here’s an example generated with better algorithms:

PS: also note that for game purposes, the athmosphere is unrealistically thick as a proportion of planetary radius, purelly because it looks better. A lot of choices in game making are mainly artistic freedom which at first people with a Science or Engineering background tend to shy away from “because it’s not how things are”.

• At best, if it as as good as it’s said, it helps your liver, kidneys and bladder by getting rid of noxious substances faster and at lower concentration levels.
• As worst, if it has no benefits at all, you piss more often.

Unlike most “health” trends out there “drink more water” will be very good in the mid and long term if it works and only mildy inconvenient if it doesn’t, so logically it seems worth trying unless you’re in the kind of situation where taking a piss is somehow dangerous.

IMHO, people going for “convenience today” above all else is behind most of the shitty trends in most present day societies, and I don’t just mean it in health terms.

* Looks up *

* Ahem *

Nuclear fusion existed well before physicists.

And the side of the space for monitors isn’t an integer multiple of the monitor side.

Because “pantanal” means “from the swamp” or a specific kind of marshy terrain in at least Portuguese and probably also Spanish, and these cats are probably native to swampy areas in South America (possibly even the Pantanal area in Brazil)?!

Yeah, if you’re supposedly in AI/ML and don’t recognize a (stupidly simplified) diagram for a Neural Network, you don’t really make stuff with it, you’re just another user (probably a “prompt engineer”).

Even people creating Machine Learning solutions with other techniques would recognize that as representing a Neural Network.

That should be as recognizable to a professional in that domain as a long string of 0s and 1s would be recognizable as binary to a programmer - even if you’re not working with it at that level, you recognized such building blocks of your trade.