Cpt. Pick-a-Card's Great Escape

The Story So Far

You are Captain Pick-a-Card, the pilot of a ramshackle ship trying to escape an asteroid field.

Your ship's systems are barely held together. You'll only have a limited amount of options you can use every turn.

How to escape?

Reach the top of the screen to get out of the asteroid field!

1. Play Cards

Play a card by selecting the card along the bottom of the grid. Click on the circles on the grid to play it. You must play two cards every turn.

2. Dodge Asteroids

Asteroids will move their speed value (the number on the asteroid) each turn after you play your cards. Running into asteroids will kill you. Asteroids running into you will kill you.

3. Recycle Duds

Each turn you can recycle one card. This will let discard the currently selected card and draw a replacement card for free.

Original Jam Submission

Rocket Jockey was originally created for the JS13k game jam in 2021.  I wrote a post-mortem about the jam on my blog. I'm really happy with how Rocket Jockey came out, so I wanted to upload it on Itch.io as well. :-)