Last, Ludum Dare I used only the most basic of canvas operations and things went quite well. This time I decided to push things a bit by utilising things as if Canvas rendering worked in all respects.
Consequently, The game has issues on browsers. I'd much rather hit these sort of problems on a Ludum Dare than in a project that my income depended upon.
FireFox 6 on Windows works fine if you have enough memory free. I have had reports of FireFox 6 on Linux freezing X. My own Linux box needs to be rebooted if I try this page in Chrome. Under Windows, Chrome and Opera ran but rendered incorrectly.
As for the game itself, I had a lot of fun making the time-to-beat runs. It has quite a difficulty curve. The last level I have not successfully completed.
You can use cursor keys or wasd. Space to restart if you crash.
Decent game but this is why Canvas/JS isn't ready for primetime. Flash gives consistent performance over different browsers. When Canvas/JS can do these (which may be never considering the history of standards compliance)
I found that the different physics for the up/down (that depends on the thrusters) and the left/right (that does not) were a hindrance for me to enjoy this. As a huge fan of gravity games, that's a shame :(
It works great in the webkit based browser named surf. The game is kind of resource hungry though.