So, just after I wrote my last post here, I came up with the definite game mechanic:

• You have a jetpack with a limited fuel supply (white bar at the bottom of the screen) and you must visit the platforms in the order given by a colored square in the top-right corner of the screen.
• After you finish visiting it, you complete the level. Fail to do it with your current fuel supply and it’s game over.

It’s in a very raw state, with some platforms failing to register collision at at, but it’s playable.

I also came up with a name: Jetpack Floating Island Inspector

Tomorrow, I plan to finish at least some more of it and hopefully fix that bug. Too bad I have a family lunch to attend to (hopefully, isn’t going to take the whole day).

The way I see it, it’s great already – I have accomplished this much in a little over 12 hours of hard work. Specially considering that I started with a blank Emacs screen and I’m only using C++, SDL and SDL_gfx.

Screenshot from the ARM version (have some timing issues, but it’s playable):

BTW: source code available at https://github.com/TheFakeMontyOnTheRun/island-domination

BSD License.

Someone with a Raspberry Pi, PLEASE COMPILE THIS!