Control a mars rover! Signal delay causes your inputs to be delayed by 10 seconds. See if you can pick up a rock and place it in the rover's basket!
Note: 10 seconds ended up being pretty difficult. I included some easier settings so you can get the hang of the technique. Move slow and stop between steering corrections!
My best times: Easiest: 1:12 Easier: 1:48 Normal: 10:42
Edit: I realized the list of controls in the menu is incomplete. Here's the complete list: Up/Down arrows - adjust speed B - set speed to 0 Left/Right arrows - turn N - center steering W/S - move lower arm E/D - move upper arm Space - toggle grapple Right click and drag to move the camera Scrollwheel to zoom Escape - Back to main menu
Linux version is untested. Please let me know if you have problems with it!
Fantastic idea. I love it, its a nice fit to the them, really well made. I would like some metrics and grid on the sliders, to make it more precise. It take me several minutes to complete each chalenge : 8m for 1s, 7m for 4s and 12m for 10s.
What a fantastic idea for a game. You took the theme and made a wonderful original (and somewhat realistic) game. I'm not sure if NASA can actually control the rover or if the rover just has ai, but they would probably have this problem of delayed input. It was great that you created easier versions also.
Interesting concept, extremely good use of the concept. The graphics are nice too, though its really hard to pick up a rock, even when I was lined up right the claw seemed to go right over, I might be doing something wrong.
Some ambient radio sounds or spacey noises could have helped a lot with the mood. But I guess it in in a spacey vaccum... Some
Awesome use of the theme. I only played on easy mode and it was still quite challenging. I imagine hard would take ages. But it sure felt good when I got that rock in the basket!
I realize they are delayed, but the controls seem incorrect too. The first time the slider on the left moved the arm, the second time it made me move forward but it wouldn't let me stop. Cool idea though.
Thanks for the feedback everybody! Suese: if you need to stop, the easiest way is to press B. That sets the brakes, and will stop you very quickly (after the 10 second delay, of course).
FOR GODS SAKE, YOU LITTLE ROCK, GET INTO THIS FRIKKING BASKET!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thankfully i dont work at nasa. probably would have crashed the last mars rover into the white house or something. nice compo entry !
Hell, this game is hard. Brilliant use of the theme though.Maybe I should try it on easy? Also mars has an atmosphere, so you can realistically add some background ambiance. Wind maybe?
Wow, that was a ton of fun! Frustrating fun, but still FUN! Took me a little while to get the controls, but managed to get near a rock and almost pick it up. Had some good laughs as my rover went speeding away in the wrong direction. Graphics looked great too! Great work!
This is more infuriating than qwop! I've got the driving sorted even with max delay, but the grabber I can hardly handle even min delay, it worked so nicely the first time I didn't realise it actually has all the finesse of an arcade grabber >:/ I'm guessing that's where KSP found the parts for the rover?
Anway enough of the minor grumblings, I love the game! Brilliant concept and a real original challenge.
I had a lot of fun with this, for what it's worth, I played first the 1 second, then 4, then I played 10 seconds three times and got the rock in 2 out of 3 tries. Also my best with 10 seconds delay was 00:06:14. At first I thought there was a glitch but this was only because I had not learned how the throttle works, once I got that it was pretty easy. But still a great little challenge, so, good work sir. I also like the landscape and graphics overall are nice.
Thanks everybody! Larzan, can you give me any more info about the bugs you were experiencing? I'd love to fix them, but I haven't been able to replicate them yet.
Very nice use of the theme. The easiest mode is just right to get familar with the controls and it gets interesting with the 10 second delay. I think it would be better if there were more obstacles between the start point and a collectable rock. Anyway, nice concept!
That's a really interesting concept. I got the hang of it pretty fast (despite being intimidated when I read the controls), but then again - I played at "easiest". For the harder modes you'd definitely need more feedback, especially on turning! It took me nearly 9 minutes, by the way - because I managed to drop the first rock on my back, and then proceeding to try to take it again until it fell down on the earth again, haha.
Comments45
Some ambient radio sounds or spacey noises could have helped a lot with the mood. But I guess it in in a spacey vaccum...
Some
Very cool!
Anway enough of the minor grumblings, I love the game! Brilliant concept and a real original challenge.