Beautiful just beautiful. Everything had its place and purpose, multiple purposes: zooming out was both for navigation and to be able to better see the background images, the landscape of the game. The inertial effects both gave a real sense of drifting and floating, but also made a little mini-game of propulsion: can I get enough acceleration to jump to that far star without having to go to the one off to the side but in between.

In this way it was the best kind of low-res, the best kind of minimalism, where the austerity create beautiful efficiencies, and the awareness of the limited resources makes the time of "wasteful" flourishes all the more beautiful because I'm aware of their price.