Orbital Gardener

ORBITAL GARDENER

  You're a tiny gardener standing on a bare planet. You have three seeds and a watering can.

  Plant on damp ground near the shore and carry water up from the sea. Soon grass creeps across the hills, and flowers

  bring bees. Frogs turn up in the marshes, birds carry seeds over the water, and then foxes and fish arrive. Once your

  world is green enough, zoom out. The planet becomes a cursor target, and you can launch moons whose tides reshape the

  coastline. Zoom out again to place new planets in orbit. Zoom out once more to ignite stars across a slowly turning

  spiral galaxy.

  Person → planet → solar system → galaxy, all joined by one continuous zoom.

  Every new world is different:

  - Ocean worlds of scattered islands, ringed worlds with damp shadow bands, tidally locked worlds split between desert

    and tundra, and snowy highlands

  - 13 plant species and 7 kinds of animals, which form real food chains and spread across the land

  - Seasons, rain, auroras, meteor showers, comets, eclipses and mass blooms

  - Rare crystal caves, sky-whales, great elk and lantern moths

  - Now and then a party breaks out on your greenest world, with a soft synth groove as you zoom in

  Nothing can go wrong. There's no score, no fail state and no timer. Life only ever helps. The universe keeps growing

  while you're away (up to 12 hours), and a time-lapse shows what happened when you come back. A chronicle records every

  first bloom, arrival and eclipse.

  Controls

  - ← → / A D walk · Space jump · E plant · Q water

  - Scroll or pinch to zoom · double-click to fly to something

  - Drag out from a planet to launch a moon 

  - Drag a moon back to the planet to remove it

  -  click an empty orbit to place a planet

  · click a pulsing star to ignite it

  - C chronicle · H graphs · M mute · P pause · , . change speed

  - Touch: tap the left or right side of the screen to walk

  It's a single self-contained file with no ads, no tracking and no network use. Progress saves automatically in your

  browser.