1st Drop - Space Exploration, with a little help from Gravity..

[Technocrat]

Right, I'm thoroughly sick of working on this game, so I've decided to wind it up ASAP and release what I've done so far, before I have to flee to country. So, with limited ado, my sales pitch for:

1st Drop - a gravity-assisted landing game.

This might remind a few people of a certain classic arcade game. Shameless plagiarism? Naaah, I take a good idea and add a few new things in. After all, why stick to just landing on the moon's surface, when there are so many other kinds of thankless tasks for astronauts to perform?



Search the rings of Saturn for the black boxes of less fortunate spacecraft



Rescue colonists before a robotic miner that thinks they look tasty gobbles them up


And...uhm...adventure!


Since I almost seem to now be able to finish a game in two months (improvement from finishing a game in never), this game will be out by the end of next week - whether it's tidy or not. It'll certainly be playable, but since I've cut down a lot of what it was originally going to be, it's more of another demonstration of what weird stuff I like to experiment with in AGS.

[Jakerpot]

The graphics look rad!!!
Looking forward for this 

[Kweepa]

Sweet!

[Snake]

Wow, this is looking amazing!

[poc301]

Ever played Space Taxi back in the day?  It was a gravity-based landing game too   Looks very intriguing.

Thanks,

BIll

[m0ds]

Looks like a lot of fun, and the graphics are awesome! I only have experience of the lander game in The Dig, and man was I awful at that! But I'll definitely give this a play. Good luck!

[Dualnames]

Looks brilliant!! 

[Technocrat]

Well, I'm certainly dead chuffed about how enthused people seem to be about this! I've just got a couple more levels to wind up before it's function, put the sound in, and deal with the final "menu" and score system, but it's nearly sorted.

Also, if anyone fancies giving this game a bit of a test-drive for me, I wouldn't be averse. At this stage, more in terms of balancing the difficulty - I think it's dead easy, my current testing minion (i.e. my younger brother) finds it inordinately difficult. If anyone's up for test-driving it, do drop me a PM!

Also, a boss battle:

[DrWhite]

Yeah! Yesterday I exhumed my old NES and played Dropzone, and today I find you´re doing this with AGS. And with boss-fights. Can´t wait to play it.