Diet Launch

Multi-stage rocket launching simulator. Launch vegetable and rockets into space. Because it is hard!

Controls

• UP / DOWN – control engine power
• SPACE – drop stage

Gameplay

Your goal is to launch the rocket along the trajectory by tuning the engine power and dropping stages at precisely timed moments. Features:

• 3 stage rocket
• real NASA audio recordings
• hidden rocket skins – vegetables and Pacman ghosts (finish game to unlock)
• fake (but not-so-bad-looking) physics

Stay tuned on @jarnik for future updates.

Tools: vim, haXe NME, GIMP, haXeFlixel 

Date: 03/2013

The Idea

As an avid fan of game jams and space exploration in general, participation in the DarkSideJam was a must for me. As I could not attend any registered jam site, I took it as a personal challenge.

The Result

The idea was quite simple, turned out more fun than expected, but was not so easy to implement, as usual. My work-in-progress SVG-importing library FaXe came to rescue in the last minute, so I could put together quite fancy GUI.