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Retirement of the Space Shuttle Discovery by Jonny D

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made by Jonny D for LD19 (COMPO)
Use 'wasd' or arrow keys to pilot the Space Shuttle on its last voyage. Turn with the left and right arrows. Move forward with the up arrow key.

There is no win condition, so it's like a sandbox sim, however unrealistic. Hint: Your big target hangs around in a 3000 km orbit.

Windows http://code.bluedinosaurs.com/SDL/Retirement of the Discovery48.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-19/?action=preview&uid=654

Ratings

Coolness 7% 81
Overall 2.77 130
Audio 1.20 185
Community 1.82 193
Fun 2.50 152
Graphics 2.73 132
Humor 3.18 29
Innovation 3.27 62
Theme 3.05 118

Feedback

droqen
20. Dec 2010 · 04:16 UTC
I'm not even sure what I'm doing it or why I'm doing it but I desire to not stop.

How the hell did I get a pet satellite to orbit me? <3
jolle
20. Dec 2010 · 21:31 UTC
I have flown into hundreds of satellites and the moon, does that make me a winner? I believe it does! \o/

Probably needs a little work to really function as a game (like you say, a win condition).
plams
20. Dec 2010 · 22:13 UTC
"Bird destroyed!" - hahaha. Objective or not, I love oribiter style games (this is the best: http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk). Nice cloud of satellites :-) Found the moon, but I bounced right off.
Devenger
22. Dec 2010 · 00:22 UTC
400000km up, and I'm still getting 'Satellite Destroyed!' messages. Truly, my launch was a triumph.
Tom 7
23. Dec 2010 · 04:47 UTC
Haha! A nice dadaist space simulator. That's a lot of satellites! Sad that I could not destroy the moon.
dertom
25. Dec 2010 · 13:45 UTC
Hehe...we have more or less the same idea about using the space shuttles last flight! ;D Good job dude!
philomory
26. Dec 2010 · 07:34 UTC
Not exactly 'fun', but certainly entertaining. Took me a while to get the hang of controls for precise movement.
Hamumu
27. Dec 2010 · 16:35 UTC
Seemed kind of pointless drifting around there... so much effort to change your heading, why was there a 'fuel' limit on that? I would've liked to keep holding an arrow to continue to adjust my heading. I don't know. Fun to bash satellites around a bit, but with such slow control, it all felt really slow rather than the fun of smacking things around willy nilly.
Endurion
29. Dec 2010 · 19:10 UTC
Yay, moon destroyed! (By flinging a satellite at it?)
As you said it's more of a toy box than a game. At least I did reap 10000 points for the moon. Discovery going down in a blaze of glory!
Jerm
31. Dec 2010 · 10:47 UTC
This really needs more work to be a fun game, but despite that I played it for quite a while. The controls were quite intuitive.

Destroying the moon was awesome! After that I flew 200000 km into space (there's some weird graphical glitches up there, or maybe they're relativistic effects), then came back down and crashed into the Earth at nearly 4000 km/s. Mission: Success!