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Retirement of the Space Shuttle Discovery

By grimfang4

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor293.18
Innovation623.27
Coolness817
Theme1183.05
Overall1302.77
Graphics1322.73
Fun1522.50
Audio1851.20
Community1931.82

Comments

droqen 2010-12-20 04:21

I'm not even sure what I'm doing it or why I'm doing it but I desire to not stop.

How the hell did I get a pet satellite to orbit me? <3

jolle 2010-12-20 21:36

I have flown into hundreds of satellites and the moon, does that make me a winner? I believe it does! \o/

Probably needs a little work to really function as a game (like you say, a win condition).

plams 2010-12-20 22:18

"Bird destroyed!" - hahaha. Objective or not, I love oribiter style games (this is the best: http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk). Nice cloud of satellites :-) Found the moon, but I bounced right off.

devenger 2010-12-22 00:27

400000km up, and I'm still getting 'Satellite Destroyed!' messages. Truly, my launch was a triumph.

brighterorange 2010-12-23 04:52

Haha! A nice dadaist space simulator. That's a lot of satellites! Sad that I could not destroy the moon.

dertom 2010-12-25 13:50

Hehe...we have more or less the same idea about using the space shuttles last flight! ;D Good job dude!

philomory 2010-12-26 07:39

Not exactly 'fun', but certainly entertaining. Took me a while to get the hang of controls for precise movement.

hamumu 2010-12-27 16:40

Seemed kind of pointless drifting around there... so much effort to change your heading, why was there a 'fuel' limit on that? I would've liked to keep holding an arrow to continue to adjust my heading. I don't know. Fun to bash satellites around a bit, but with such slow control, it all felt really slow rather than the fun of smacking things around willy nilly.

endurion 2010-12-29 19:15

Yay, moon destroyed! (By flinging a satellite at it?)
As you said it's more of a toy box than a game. At least I did reap 10000 points for the moon. Discovery going down in a blaze of glory!

jerm 2010-12-31 10:52

This really needs more work to be a fun game, but despite that I played it for quite a while. The controls were quite intuitive.

Destroying the moon was awesome! After that I flew 200000 km into space (there's some weird graphical glitches up there, or maybe they're relativistic effects), then came back down and crashed into the Earth at nearly 4000 km/s. Mission: Success!