Baro

I don't know much about space travel, but from talking to my friends playing this game it seems no matter how far out you get, you always end up falling back home. What does it take to totally leave the planet behind and be lost in space forever?

I heard about this game on something awful this morning, tons of goons jumping on it. And they tell friends and their friends tell friends... I certainly spammed the game on facebook.

Ah ha, I thought it was a decoupler too! I'm so pumped to read that most of my suggestions on content to add down the road (space stations, missions, budgets, career mode) are all planned. This is going to be awesome. It would be cool though to have a button one could hold down when placing items that would place a duplicate item symetrical to the one placed. Maybe eye-balling is supposed to be part of the challenge though? Would love to be able to actually exactly line up all my fins and struts and such though...

So I haven't had much time to play around with this yet but I made a simple rocket after going through the tutorial. It was just a solid booster, the 3-way separator, and then 3 boosters. The problem is that on launch the 3 solid boosters just decided to explode as all 4 engines seemed to go off at once. The 3 solid boosters seemed to be on a different stage than the booster under the capsule so I'm not sure what went wrong. This is an awesome little freeware game. I'd love to see it continue to develop, maybe even into a commercial game. I'd gladly pay for such a game with more features, maybe a moon to get to. Or a spacestation you could build part by part, launch by launch. Perhaps some 'career mode' where your government sets you a budget and increases/decreases it based on reaching targets.