NOW WITH HORIZONTAL SCROLLING! (WIP) Launch a rocket and do...stuff. Try launching into space (altitude 100,000 m)! Controls: Up - fire the engine Left and right- steer Mouse up and down - throttle T - SAS/hold heading S - tracking smoke A - abort K - obscure movie reference How steering works: While the engine is running, you can gimbal it to steer. When it's not running, your only method of steering is with the RCS. And obviously, if you run out of RCS fuel, then you can't use the RCS to steer. In addition, RCS is weak at low altitudes, and the rotational force from gimballing is proportional to the amount of thrust, meaning that at low throttle the engine can't rotate the rocket as easily. If you're running out of either fuels, you can land on the pad to refuel.
Feel free to leave suggestions, bug reports, and help in the comments. Known issues: The ground can sometimes "wander" around No horizontal scrolling Lag The pad is sticky Next: Redo flames Soon: --Inverse square law-- DONE Velocity vectors Simple launching and landing minigame Values that actually correspond to real-life ones Better FX Multiple rockets Drag (current one is a placeholder) Atmo effects (condensation cones, reentry plasma, etc.) Timewarping More realistic throttling and engine ignition BETTER horizontal scrolling Staging Clouds Would be great but would be incredibly hard: Fully-simulated orbital mechanics Multiple planets Graphed orbits RO implementation GNU Kerbal Space Program My eventual goal with this game is to provide an accurate simulation of launching multiple types of rockets, including simulated orbital mechanics, though this is stuff that is beyond my skill level and would be hard, if not impossible, to do :( Rocket sounds are from the KW Rocketry mod for KSP (forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/51037) Space music is "Frozen Star" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Space starfield is a part of Zexyterrestrial's skybox for KSP (https://redd.it/1tq1s0) And obviously, thanks to Giddy215 for providing the basis of the physics and effects system.
