Freelance Space Agency

Freelance Space Agency

Do you also feel like it's unfair that some companies have monopoly over space travel? Have you wondered about going to space realising you need to do a lot of science-y stuff and training? What a bummer.. Would be great to have an opportunity to try it out yourself.

You are the CEO and the pilot of the new freelance space agency, that employs the most motivated and somewhat skilled scientists that help you in your travel.

These (now that I think about it..) reasonably paid (0 EUR/Month) scientists have came up with the following observations:

• The airship behaves differently in different layers of Earth's atmosphere 
• It collects stuff from Earth, that can be built into the engine before launch day
• Each stuff does something, but they don't really know what, they leave it up to you to experiment
• You can jump from this stuff to gain momentum, and you also collect these items in the meantime
• Since they were spending most of the time trying to understand how collected objects behave, they didn't find time to build you a proper radar system, but they provided you with some color coding on the radar (see: how to play section)

They also warn you about 2 deep secrets:

• The Earth is not only flat, but it's limited in length, you might end up at a part of the Earth where birds don't fly and there is no ground to get back to, try to avoid it, but they can get you back from there before lunch day, if you fall over.. but they just wouldn't like to..
• They are using a new technology so you depend on jumping from other space objects, and they are hoping there are some UFOs in space for you to go further or you'll fall back to Earth (to be honest, I don't think they did the Atmospheric calculations correctly if you can fall back from deep space, but you're the CEO, it's as much on you as on them) 

To be honest, I feel like these "scientists" are just space pirates trying to steal stuff to go higher in space, but if I were you, I'd comply with their wishes. The higher you go the happier they are.

How to Play

You have A - D movement, and an automatic space ship, your goal is to go as high as you can. Each round you are presented with the most important statistics from your trip this year.

Each round you can boost your ship with stuff collected, but they are single use, and hard to tell how much better / worse handling will be. Add these items to your ship and see if you can go higher than anyone before.

A new year can be started by restarting the game (reset statistics).

Only tested on MacOS. Please let me know if there are issues with the windows build.