🚀 Space Explorer — v1.9

A 3D space game you fly in your browser. Five galaxies, each a black hole ringed by star systems, filled with richly-textured worlds you can actually land on. Out of early access — this is the full release, now with multiplayer.

👥 Multiplayer

On the start screen pick Host (you get a network password like nova-4821) or Join (type the host's password). Everyone who types the same password shares one universe and sees each other's ships fly around live. A wrong password just puts you in a different room, so the password controls who can join.

v1.6: multiplayer is now real internet play — when the page is online it uses Supabase Realtime, so friends anywhere who type your password join your universe (shown as 🌐). If Supabase can't load (the offline single file with no internet), it automatically falls back to same-browser rooms (shown as 🖥️).

☁️ Hosting

The hosted version is just index.html + vendor/ served as static files (see vercel.json) — deploy the repo to Vercel and it runs as a web app with internet multiplayer. The downloadable Space-Explorer.html remains a single offline file for double-click play.

▶️ Play it

No install. Open Space-Explorer.html in any modern browser (double-click it). It's one self-contained file — the 3D engine is bundled in, so it even works with no internet.

🎮 Controls

Key / input	Action
W / S	Thrust forward / back
A / D	Turn left / right
Right-drag	Aim the ship (fly wherever you look)
Space	Climb · F Dive
H	🛸 Hover (on a planet) — hold altitude without hopping
Shift	Boost
Q + W	⚡ Hyperspeed (cross the galaxy)
E	🌀 Open a portal (when near one) to jump to any system
P	First-person (cockpit) view

🌌 The universe

• 3 galaxies, each wrapped in a glowing bubble and centered on a black hole (event horizon + accretion disk).
• Inside a galaxy you see only that galaxy; fly out into intergalactic space and every galaxy's bubble appears — pick your next one and fly (or portal) there.
• Each galaxy holds 5–7 star systems with 1, 2, or 3 suns.
• Sol (your start) is always a single yellow star.
• Every system has 3–7 planets, each with its own procedural texture (earth, gas giant, ice, lava, toxic, rocky, craters, desert), atmospheres, rings, moons, and some with lumpy bulges.

🛬 Landing

Touch any planet or moon to drop onto its surface — the ground is painted and textured to match the world, the sky shows the system's 1–3 suns, ringed worlds show their rings arcing overhead, and crater worlds have real pits carved into the terrain. Hold Space to climb back into space.

🏆 Goal

Explore and land on every world in the universe — do it and you'll see UNIVERSE COMPLETE! The counter (top-left) tracks your progress.

🛠️ Built with

• Three.js (bundled locally — no build step, no internet)
• A single index.html (dev) → built into Space-Explorer.html (one-file game) via node build-standalone.js
• See CHANGELOG.md for the full v0.1 → v1.0 journey.