Posts tagged “Rocket Mail”

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How is Rocket Mail doing?

With work full steam ahead on Mystery Game No. 1, it’s easy to forget that I’ve got another baby to care about. Rocket Mail was launched two months ago, but of course the story doesn’t end at launch. In a sense, it only begins.

At launch, I spammed links to the game to as many …

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Rocket Mail launched!

Rocket Mail

Put your spatial insight and worldly knowledge to the test! Rocket Mail is a company that delivers packages to anywhere in the world – by rocket! Use your phone’s compass and accelerometer to launch your delivery rocket to cities throughout the world. The closer you get, the higher your …

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Things that take time

At the core, Rocket Mail is a very simple game. I made the early prototype (Doomsray) in less than a day. There are no complicated physics, no advanced graphics, and very little in the way of performance requirements. Of course there’s a long way to go from a prototype to a finished game, but …

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Ballistics distance

Just a short post to share something I’ve been working on that mightily pleases the Kerbal Space Program player in me. In testing Orbital Express, it became clear that having three controls (compass direction, inclination, and launch speed) is too much for beginning players. So I decided to …

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Doomsray

I’ve been working on and off on this project for almost two months now, so it’s time I blogged something about it. Here’s the elevator pitch:

Ballistic Delivery Service is a wacky party game that puts your spatial insight and topographical knowledge to the test! When conventional …

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