Space Lander Official Cover

Space Lander

🏒 Vortex Game Studios πŸ“… 30 Apr 2015

🎬 Deep Vision & Technical Analysis

πŸŒ† Atmosphere & Visual Direction

Authentic vintage visual direction representing landmark era aesthetic standards.

⚑ Action Pacing & Physics Engine

Systemic interaction and engaging pacing designed for historical immersion.

🎯 Performance & Launch Trajectory

An essential milestone preserved in masterclass gaming archival standard.

Space Lander is a 2D flight simulator, where the player must travel between planets, as part of the human space exploration; but before dreaming about fighting aliens and save the galaxy, you need to start with the basics: Land in other planets without crash and become space dust...

Gameplay Mechanics & Systems

Space Lander - Gameplay Mechanics & Systems
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The biggest challenges in this game are in all the atlas about the sideral space: different gravity levels and the lack of friction in space, more than enough to disorient some first-travel astronauts. Besides that, floating in space dodging planets and asteroids, to land inside some hidden mazes (all that driving a ship that can't take any damage) gives to the player the challenging experience of travel inside the space fighting against... the space.

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Release & Industry Impact

Space Lander - Release & Industry Impact
πŸ“Έ Official HD Capture: Space Lander - Release & Industry Impact

21 stages with two parts: Travel and Land. A tutorial (you will need at least one friendly voice when you are alone into the void) Epic 8 bits soundtrack! Extremely frustrating challenges and infinite lives to revive each one of your failures as a cosmonaut! This game was made for a international GameJam ( http://jams.gamejolt.io/gbjam3) where the rules are make games with technical and aesthetic limitations of a Game Boy (like the number of colors or screen resolution, for example) and, this is the polish version of the prototype including more levels and a tutorial.