Galaxy Painter
A downloadable game
This game is currently suspended as I look into a possibly issue. If you have downloaded this before and anti-virus pops up, please comment or message me.
Just a drawing program with the goal to create explorable galaxies.
I've used it to be an exercise in programming dynamic objects and physics. The stars on screen can actually be moved around using wind tools as if they were sand. I want to make a lot more brushes that utilize this feature, but for the most part the mechanic serves a purpose in brush dynamics more than anything.
there are three brush sizes, each increasing in intensity of stars being made as well as how far they spread around.
there's a push and pull brush that yanks stars into clusters or away. A constellation brush that's really fun! A shooting stars to give it a little animation kick. and finally a rocket star that wizzes around then explodes into stars.
but, that's not all you can do in this. You can also inspect the stars you drew and visit it's solar system!
I think this is going to be a project I come back to and keep expanding. I'd love to see this get big enough that it feels like an actual drawing program rather than a fun toy. but as it is, it's still amazing and fun to play with.
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did you know this comes up as a virus for one vendor?
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6ec74fdf89b5a730c4568072753a26c583e3a5c4ec2c...
I think it says its contacting ip addresses that had ransomware hosted on them before but also hosted github pages? Saying it was an azure server that maybe someone had compromised. I'm not an expert on such things. But regardless, because of that, it flags your file.
ooohhh man. okay thank you so much for saying this. I'm going to take down the files but keep up the page so others can know this risk. This may be one of my biggest fears. I'll go through my project and see what's going on, this is the first time I tried making something that saves data, I don't believe the project has any kind of online functionality but I also used premade assets. I'm very sorry about this.
It could've been a false positive too. I did more research and redid the VT scan because I actually found another thing come up with the same exact IP addresses and it's an akamai address which is a CDN and might refer to a data center breach that happened and others say that address might be easy to abuse by hackers because its an akamai address but that doesn't necessarily mean that contacting it is GOING to get your computer sick.
See more here:
https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/23.216.147.76
(It actually says it's not malicious)
and here:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/23.216.147.76/detection
Saying it's related to attacks performed by APT27 aka LuckyMouse:
https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0027/
This is the other address mentioned in the VT report:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/20.99.184.37/community
and this is the one where I had mentioned github pages. It's also related to akamai and has potential for abuse if someone compromises that address and uses it in an attack but that's usually not a permanent thing anyways.
I would wager this was actually a false positive but I commend you for taking security seriously. I feel kinda bad that you took your neat little art program down because of what I had said. Looks like whatever was going on with that ip address, people in the malware security field know about it and are doing stuff so you might be good but of course exercise your own best judgement.