Mars Rescue

Mars Rescue

Rescue the marooned crew of the first mars base

Control a spacecraft as it falls toward the surface of mars, using thrusters to slow the ship's descent and control its horizontal motion to reach a safe landing area.

Crashing into obstacles, hitting the surface at too high a velocity, or running out of fuel all result in failure.

Retro game

Made in QBasic, source code available, and compiled for MS-DOS or Windows

Old school!

Source code available!

Wanna learn a easy way to make retro games? This source code is very easy to read, fully commented and compiles for Windows or MS-DOS with free tools! Give it a try!

It's interesting that the whole game is a single code file, there are no external resources or bloated libraries or anything like that.

I generate everything procedurally in the same code.

There are also some old-school tricks to make the graphics work, like flipping pages, and using few colors, among other details.

Timing for modern CPUs with old QBasic was also a challenge. I hope you enjoy it, send me comments!