✅ Two player co-op on one keyboard.
✅ Auto-balancing difficulty (great for adults playing with kids).
✅ Pretty nice physics™ with elastic collisions.
🪙 Pick up all the coins as fast as you can!

Also:

• Special coins
• Pixel-based scoring
• Extra modes: Try Z or X from the title screen.

physics two-player co-op

P#127602 2023-03-25 16:42

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A game about rockets, for little and big kids. This is a one-button game with no possibility of failure.
Press X to skip the SPACE WALK.
See if you can activate the hidden autopilot for landing!

Change log:

0.2

• Sound, stars, random birds, sky colours, tracking camera

0.3

• Added a countdown! Player can tap UP or hold it.

0.4

• Used fill patterns to dither the gradations of atmosphere.

0.5

• Attract screen plays out an animation of astronaut getting on board.
• Added states to complete the game loop, you can get to orbit and back.
• Added SPACE WALK.
• Added rocket heating up depending on reentry velocity.
• Adjusted volume for less pew-pew and more engines.
  0.6
• Increased fun by 100% by rating your landing. Can you make a PERFECT landing?
• Added impact smoke on landing.

0.7

• Added fuel-burning engine to the car (smoke trail)
• Added altimeter with goal marker

0.8

• Added secret autopilot mode, toggles on and off. Autopilot will always attempt to make a perfect landing, but it'll cost you your rating.

0.9 "C65"

• Mountains!
• The car gets pushed away by the rocket blast, if it's close enough (thanks for the suggestion, C65!)

0.10

• Camera shakes when you hit the ground.
• Improved sound effects for 'hit the ground' (sounds beefier) and 'hit a bird' (a bit chirpier).
• Now a hot rocket takes time to cool down!

0.11

• Nicer background with clouds behind the mountains (inspired by Jelpi).
• Two varieties of procedural clouds with fluffy particles.

0.12

• Intro and countdown music.

0.13

• Press X during SPACE WALK to skip it.
• Tweaked music.

kids rocket physics

P#61984 2019-02-17 17:07 ( Edited 2023-03-11 19:34)

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My first pico-8 game. Clear the screen as fast as you can!

Scoring brackets:

• 3000-∞: Non-gamer
• 2000-2999: You need practice
• 1000-1999: Doing OK
• 500-999: Respectable
• 100-499: Good
• 0-99: Thank RNGesus

0.2:

• Start and Win screens

0.3:

• Particle effects for boundary collisions, coin pickups, exhaust 'confetti' (Ⓒ Jill)
• Player trail
• Starting coins increased to 4

1.0 "Vlambeer edition"

• Coin pickup explosions
• Permanent explosion marks
• Pause for 2 frames on pickup
• Screenshake on boundary collision
• Better title and win screens
• Thanks Noah for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U

1.1 "Par & Marty"

• Fixed TIMER not resetting at end of game

1.2 "Secret modes"

• You can toggle PAINT MODE on the title screen
• You can toggle MIDAS MODE on the title screen

kids

P#60805 2019-01-14 03:17 ( Edited 2019-11-29 20:42)

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