A downloadable game

A re-creation of the 1979 Atari classic Lunar Lander with new game play.

This is a LOVE2D community project with contributions from

  • togfox

  • McSnappen

  • Gunroar:cannon()

  • Philbywhizz

  • MadByte

Player instructions

Fly your Mars Lander across the surface of Mars. Land at fuel bases. Earn money. Fly as far as you can and challenge your friends!

Features:

- 2D platformer. Fly as far as you can before running out of fuel

- play with your friends on LAN

- play against a bot (scripted)

- play against a real machine-learning artificial intelligent lander that learns

- land carefully and get fuel

- buy upgrades with money

- sweet pixel art with animations

- parallax scrolling

- simple to play. Just five buttons

- basic support for Android (will be improved)


Future features

- internet play with  your friends

- more sounds and more modules to buy

- more animations

- more everything!

This is a community project developed by those who love making games. This project will evolve over time so come back soon and see what's changed!

Download

Download
MarsLander.v1.04.zip 8 MB
Download
MarsLander v1.03.zip 7.8 MB

Install instructions

Installation instructions

EXE and LOVE file also available


Note to Android users: there is no APK available and it is not on the playstore. You can play this on your Android device if you install LOVE for ANDROID first. See the installation instructions for more details.

Installation instructions

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v1.04 is available

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  • parachute now auto-deploys
  • font sizes are now larger
  • removed unused DEBUG code
  • the end game text message is now correct
  • the game music now plays properly
  • fixed a runtime error when AI travels too far

v1.03 is available

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- can now play against a real machine-learning artificial intelligent lander that learns from its wins and fails

- the scripted bot is much improved

v1.02 is available

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- android compatible

- the ENTER key now resets your lander

- added a parachute module. Use the side thruster buttons to steer the parachute

- added a new 'guidance' module

- added a bot to fly against

- high score now shows the player that achieved that high score

- better LAN support

- there is a game options window to configure the game as you like

- lander animates introduced

- shop menu is now clickable

- fixed some bugs