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A jam submission

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An attempt to demake of No Man's Sky, in just 560 bytes, for #TweetTweetJam 6
Submitted by Paul Nicholas (Liquidream) (@Liquidream) — 7 days, 2 hours before the deadline
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m=173l=16c=1w=9^6a=w/2y=a
z="\^w\^t"h=63t=3.2v=0u=t
r=rnd
function _update60()b=btn()i=(b\2%2-b%2)/l
j=(b\8%2-b\4%2)/l
u=mid(-t,u+i,t)v=mid(-t,v+j,t)a+=(l>1)and u or i/2y+=(l>1)and v or j/2cls(c)camera(a-h,y-h)for i=1,m do
srand(i)if l>1then
j="◆"s=""q="."d=r(9)e=a
f=y
?j,a-u,y-v
else
?"웃",a,y,7
d=1j="⌂"end
?q,a-(a/d+r(m))%m+h,y-(y/d+r(m))%m+h,6
?z..j,r(w),r(w),5
circfill(r(w),r(w),r(h),l>1and i or 12)end
?s.."●",e,f,8
p=pget(a-4,y)i=b&32>1if p==8then
?"❎",a,y+9
if(i)l=9c=1a+=h
elseif l>1and p!=1and p!=6then
?"❎",a,y+9
if(i)q="░"l=1c=p s=z
end
end

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Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

I enjoy this on two levels. First, it's ridiculously and joyously ambitious in scope.  Second, it works as a commentary on how NMS let you go to lots of places, but they were all very much alike (in this case, though, the limitations are definitely understandable).

DeveloperSubmitted

Thank you for the kind words 😊
(...and for appreciating the limitations! 😉)

Submitted(+1)

Ok, now hold on a second. WHAT?! This is absolutely incredible! Space games are some of my favourites, and you fit one in two tweets!? This is so damn impressive!