impulse

Overview

Another game where you control a ship using only two buttons.
It's just a small experimental game intended to be played on a phone's touch screen.

Controls

• Left mouse/left arrow/touch left side of screen for left boost
• Right mouse/right arrow/touch right side of screen for right boost
• Both boosts to travel in a straight line

Control tips

Less is more! The game uses a 'realistic physics' engine, so applying a boost to the left of the ship will apply an impulse (!) to the ship and cause it to rotate. Constantly boosting one side is going to cause the ship to spin in a small loop, so it's best to boost sparingly for course correction.

If you are on a surface you can scoot along it with a left or right boost.

The controls are the game, really. If the ship was easy to control it wouldn't be much of a game. Sorry!

About

Pilot a drone remotely to power up a derelict spaceship.
Collect cores, charge the battery, escape via the transporter without colliding with the walls or obstacles too much.

Your remote view is based on blueprints and sensors, hence the simple blue/white/orange graphics!

• 16 levels!
• gravity!
• A couple of surprises!
• dangerous force fields!
• extremely forceful vents!
• crates of alien who-knows-what!
• doors that don't stay open quite long enough!

Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

Original music by me.

Known issues

You might need to reload the page in Chrome to get the controls to work.

On some iPhones the music doesn't stop properly and each track plays over the top of the previous track causing a cacophony of noise.

On some phone browsers the long press causes a menu pop up.