{"author_link":"\/author\/grimfang4\/","author_name":"Jonny D","author_uid":"654","comments":[{"author_name":"droqen","author_uid":"1552","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 4:21am","epoch":1292818560,"text":"I'm not even sure what I'm doing it or why I'm doing it but I desire to not stop.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>How the hell did I get a pet satellite to orbit me? &lt;3"},{"author_name":"jolle","author_uid":"9","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 9:36pm","epoch":1292880660,"text":"I have flown into hundreds of satellites and the moon, does that make me a winner? I believe it does! \\o\/\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Probably needs a little work to really function as a game (like you say, a win condition)."},{"author_name":"plams","author_uid":"3099","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 10:18pm","epoch":1292883180,"text":"&quot;Bird destroyed!&quot; - 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."},{"author_name":"Devenger","author_uid":"2661","time":"Dec 22, 2010 @ 12:27am","epoch":1292977320,"text":"400000km up, and I'm still getting 'Satellite Destroyed!' messages. Truly, my launch was a triumph."},{"author_name":"Tom 7","author_uid":"1984","time":"Dec 23, 2010 @ 4:52am","epoch":1293079620,"text":"Haha! A nice dadaist space simulator. That's a lot of satellites! Sad that I could not destroy the moon."},{"author_name":"dertom","author_uid":"479","time":"Dec 25, 2010 @ 1:50pm","epoch":1293284700,"text":"Hehe...we have more or less the same idea about using the space shuttles last flight! ;D Good job dude!"},{"author_name":"philomory","author_uid":"1112","time":"Dec 26, 2010 @ 7:39am","epoch":1293348840,"text":"Not exactly 'fun', but certainly entertaining. Took me a while to get the hang of controls for precise movement."},{"author_name":"Hamumu","author_uid":"11","time":"Dec 27, 2010 @ 4:40pm","epoch":1293467700,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Dec 29, 2010 @ 7:15pm","epoch":1293649800,"text":"Yay, moon destroyed! (By flinging a satellite at it?)\r<br\/>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!"},{"author_name":"Jerm","author_uid":"518","time":"Dec 31, 2010 @ 10:52am","epoch":1293792420,"text":"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.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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!"}],"images":["ld19\/654-f72a2c2b7ca9d3d307b2ee4ac888d273.jpg","ld19\/654-6c762a2753d87e5e00087b00d0ff4bc3.jpg","ld19\/654-7d46da0387d885d61c72f0415583fd84.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/code.bluedinosaurs.com\/SDL\/Retirement of the Discovery48.zip","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"33442","g_author":"654","g_event":"LD19","g_eventkey":"5","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"33472","g_title":"Retirement of the Space Shuttle Discovery","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"130","g_commentcount":"10","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/33232\/654-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/33232\/654-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/33232\/654-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"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.\r\n\r\nThere is no win condition, so it's like a sandbox sim, however unrealistic.  Hint: Your big target hangs around in a 3000 km orbit.<\/p>","title":"Retirement of the Space Shuttle Discovery"}