ICARUS

GAME JAM IN PROGRESS TILL END OF WEEK. GAME WILL RECEIVE SPORADIC UPDATES UNTIL JAM FINISHES.

On  a mission to Venus, your spaceship is knocked off course by a rogue asteroid.

Your last hope of survival is performing a solar slingshot... Only problem, the auto navigation is offline, and if you don't program the maneuver in the next 5 minutes, you'll never make it home. 

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HOW TO PLAY

There's 3 endings: 1 good, 1 bad and one middling. 

In essence its a turn based game. The idea being to try and align your trajectory with an unknown target number assigned at the start of a new attempt. 

you either move your ship closer to the sun (the A column) and speed up, increasing your ships number., or you move further from the sun (the C column) and slow your ship down, decreasing it . You can also choose to try to stay central (the B column), which has  a much smaller, but not non existent, slowing effect on the ship.

Meanwhile you have to be mindful of solar flares which will cause unknown variation to your expected accuracy, limited fuel and the ever looming countdown of your ship entering the suns electronics disrupting proximity.

I should warn perhaps that the accuracy percentage is not the final percentage chance you have to succeed. Space is a lot bigger than you think, and a maneuver that puts you 85% on course is a lot less accurate than one that gives you 90% accuracy, so although even winning with a chance of less than 90% is possible. Your odds are greatly  improved by getting a better accuracy rating.

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the basic controls are mouse on the menu and cut-scene screens, and keyboard for the actual game.

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If you enjoyed my game and would like me to expand it, or didn't enjoy it and want to tell me what you hated, let me know in the comments

This game was made for Pixel Game Jam 2025

All of the sprite assets were made by me (Osakakun), so, forgive them...

The Audio however:
Rocketship Taking Off - Unlisted Author - freesound.org
Cannon Explosion - Diicorp95 - freesound.org
Mechanical 1 - Bmaczero - freesound.org
Space Drone 1 & 2 - Eric Matyas - soundimage.org

and the font is:
Apple ][ - Zeb - dafont.com