Rock Jockey 2.0 is ready for action

[NakedApe]

Hey @nakedape I haven't had a chance to check after you told me the right way to use the mouse. I'll check it again.

I have plans to review it in a YouTube video too.

Just need to find time and ambition at once

Thanks vm @grymmjack. Sounds great! I found your first impressions of the game from June here (#4) and you liked it a lot back then. Make sure to set the game difficulty to Easy since you're a Rock Jockey rookie.    And good luck finding that time and ambition. 

I'll post a slightly updated version of the game that gives a message if you try to steer wrong by moving the mouse up and down - not side to side - and sets the default difficulty to easy (since some find it hard to play).

EDIT: Added the new zipped folder below.

[a740g]

I had better luck landing the ship in v2 than I did in v1. 

QQ: What did you use to generate the VOs?

[NakedApe]

Excellent, a740g, I'm glad it worked for you - and nice flying!

MacOS has a built-in speech synthesizer, and I used a free, little app called "Speech" from the Mac App Store. The voice is US female "Samantha." Type in what you want her to say and save to file. Then I used WavePad Masters Edition to edit the VOs and all the other sound files...  It was a fun project and I learned a lot!

[madscijr]

And now, just in time for X-Mas fun, here's my space game. I posted version one of this arcade-style game as a WIP six months ago. Now I think it's done - I think I've actually finished writing a computer game - omg! Many thanks to Terry Ritchie, MasterGy, bplus and Amazing Steve for the routines I stole - and attributed to them. 

Thanks for sharing this! 

I finally got around to running it, didn't have a ton of time to go too deep, but here is some initial feedback, if it helps? 

•   This is a great looking game!
  
•   The different screens / chapters are very interesting looking and have me very curious to try. I don't know if the ones that show the planet's surface use different game mechanics (ie the game changes to a Lunar Lander or Gravitar type rules) but if it did that would be cool. 
  
•  The idea for the controls is original, but for a game like this, I really think just stick to the tried and true Asteroids / Spacewar! model, where left/right = rotate, up = thrust, down = other action, and the ship builds momentum. Having to deal with new/awkward controls, where the ship moves this slowly, just adds frustration for me. 
  
• I haven't looked at the code yet, but if this can be tweaked to be configurable to be a sort of Asteroids / Spacewar / Lunar Lander / Gravitar construction set, that would be absolutely killer (for me at least)! 
  

I'll definitely play with it as I get time. I have a Spacewar game in the works that stalled a while back, and your game really inspires me to go back and finally finish it!

Thanks again and keep up the good work!