LEFT/RIGHT arrow keys turn the spaceship. UP arrow applies thrust. Fly to stars to visit solar systems. Today we set it to render stars from only the player's current sector and all neighboring sectors. We don't yet ever delete clones so if you fly around for a while without entering a star you will run out of clones and space will be empty.
This project is part of an ongoing video/stream series where we are making a game from Scratch. We stream every weekday from 12pm to 1pm EST on Twitch and we archive the videos on youtube. See www.builtfromscratch.net for links to the stream, video archive, and other details..