Cloud Tracks

Game Overview & History

This is a Train Jam 2015 game!

Control a magnetic field to steer particles around inside a cloud chamber. The camera follows a ‘hero’ particle, and the different kinds of particles have special properties. There’s a variety of charges and masses, and some are unstable and explode on collision. This is an exploratory / ambient game with no set goals.

Gameplay Mechanics & Systems

Following the TrainJam 2015 theme
On Track, this was inspired by the cloud tracks left by charged particles in cloud chambers and the fields used in particle detectors to determine mass/charge ratios.

The physics isn’t much like our universe, however.

Release & Industry Impact

Controls

SPACE: Start, Reset
UP: Increase field
DOWN: Decrease field
ESCAPE: Exit

The indicator at the bottom left of the screen shows the current field strength.

Credits

Design, Programming and Art

Mikayla ‘mhutch’ Hutchinson (@mjhutchinson)

Music and Sound

Nick Weihs (@nickweihs)

Special Thanks

Adriel Wallick (@msminotaur)

Eiríkr Åsheim (@d6)

Source

Full source code is available
on GitHub.