Long Road To Mars

Long Road to Mars

Long Road to Mars is a 2D side-on rocket lander. You start with a water tower welded to one engine. 28 missions later you land on Mars.

In between there are hop tests, cylinder hops, full test flights, recoveries that mostly don't, and a slow climb up the Astro Rich List. The mission progression follows the actual flight history of a certain private rocket program. Names are lightly changed. Any resemblance is satirical.

It's inspired by arcade lunar landers from 1979. The physics are realistic-ich. Easier than Kerbal Space Program.

Features

• 28 hand-built missions, from low hops to Mars
• Year-by-year mission briefings with physics lessons in the early levels
• A daily challenge with a local streak counter
• An Astro Rich List you climb by completing missions
• A social-media minigame (Squitter Battle)
• Hidden cheats, Easter eggs, an end demo
• Save progress between sessions

Controls

• Spacebar - main engine
• Left / Right arrows - rotate
•  F11 - fullscreen
• Esc - pause / exit fullscreen
• H on the title screen - controls and tips
• The first level walks you through the basics

Made by

APN201 (Juha Lilja). A hobbyist who watched too many launches and wanted to land some.

Built with HTML5 canvas, JavaScript, and SVG.