CuYAt stands for Curb Your Attitude and is intended to be a game to help understand
attitude.
It is currently in a very rudimentary shape: a lot of work is needed to get it to be educational (let alone funny).
The idea is that you control a spacecraft attitude and your objective is to make it point as needed with the least possible number of moves.
So far, there is only one mode for playing. The screen is split into two. On the left you see the stars through the window. On the right, the stars as seen in needed attitude (target). Your mission is to make the left be as close as you can to the right1. For that, you use your keyboard like this:
| key | action |
|---|---|
| r/R | do a roll |
| p/P | do a pitch |
| y/Y | do a yaw |
| z/Z | zoom |
| s/S | scale |
| d | show/hide distance |
| n | show/hide star names |
| c | use real/random catalog |
| v/V | number of stars |
| space | score this game and start another |
| t | show only the target |
| h | show help |
| q | end playing the game |
- See definitions of Roll, Pitch and Yaw.
- Zoom makes your window narrower/wider (as if it was the zoom of a camera)
- Scale is the step with which the spacecraft moves. The bigger the scale, the faster you will rotate it.
The score at the end is the average of the individual scores of each game you played. The goal is to get the smallest score possible. The score in each game increases with the number of moves that you make and decreases with the distance to the target that you reach.
Original Catalog: Yale bright star catalog BSC5
Footnotes
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political pun not intended ↩