Lunar Lander game in progress

This is a first look at a game I am writing in my spare time. It's meant to be an homage and an update to the old-school Lunar Lander game, with the additional feature that the entire lunar landing sequence, from orbit to surface, can be played. This footage captures the final moments of approach and landing. The game was constructed to faithfully model the performance characteristics of the Apollo Lunar Module. The terrain is still flat, but adding more interesting terrain is on my to-do list before I release the game. I am looking for people to help me test the game and refine it as I add code.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• video games
• lunar lander
• simulator
• space flight
• space
• LM
• Apollo
• moon landing
• lander

[systat]

Can you tell me what language you used(is that java icon?), and what API's

[pbrennan]

I used Java, yes. The game is still in development and will be in general release soon. It will start with a more traditional setup and allow you to go all the way up to the full landing from orbit, which is what is modeled here.

[pbrennan]

I am just using the basic Swing API for rendering. It's old-school, right? :-)

[hugoestr]

Hey, I am willing to test it for you. It looks awesome. :) Send me a pm via youtube :)

[systat]

Checkout my game, it is not realistic as yours though.