This must have slipped through the cracks for me and just noticing Lunar Flight now. At first glance this game seems to be a lot better than any other previous lunar lander style game that i have seen. I liked the mini games feature and achievements as well. But the visuals look nice and I agree Pinback it would be nice to have maybe a few different lunar modules to pick from to pilot. I know its still in beta and $5 gets you into it and a copy of the game. But i do hope there is a demo once it is released.

Adding this to the game listing.

Really like the look of the game from vid. 😎

Bit annoying how no one ever bother’s to say how big the download is. They just assume everyone has good broadband. 🙄

Had a quick look through their forum and saw that there might be a demo when the game is released.

Theirs a new release of the beta out on the 29th.

I LOVE the look of this!

Hi guys,

My name is Sean Edwards, I am the developer of Lunar Flight.

Website: http://www.shovsoft.com/lunarflight/

You can find it on Desura for sale, currently %50 off: http://www.desura.com/games/lunar-flight

I would be happy to issue the admin of this site a free Desura key if they would like to review the game.

Contact me through the contacts page on the website so that I receive your email and then I can send you one.

Kind Regards

Sean

Hi Sean

Welcome to SSC and Lunar Flight looks great especially after watching your beta preview:

Is Lunar Flight still in beta or is it now officially released? And do you plan on branching out to other digital download sites?

And is there any plans to make Lunar Flight moddable in any way? Would be great to see a level editor for this game to let players design their own lunar landscapes and missions for the lander.

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The game is officially released on Desura for sale but is still in Beta at the moment hence the discounted rate. It is mostly complete but there are few issues and tweaks I want to make before it is 'Gold'

I hope to bring it to Steam in the near future but I am waiting on a reponse from Valve about that.

Unfortunately it won't be modable.

Depending on the success of the game I will consider creating another game 'Lunar Flight 2' which will be much greater in scope as I will be able to contract some additional developers.

Hi sh0v0r

Firstly, welcome to the SSC 🙂

I have had a quick play around with your beta after getting it from Desura. I have to say its well worth £3.50! 😎

If you are thinking about doing a second game in the future, might you consider missions to Mars, Europa, Io or Titan? These could offer more varied environments and new challenges. Titan for example could offer very low visibility, geysers and unstable terrain as could Mars with dust storms or Io with ioquakes and eruptions.

Like that concept a lot Geraldine and it would be easy to come up with the next name of the game 😉 But taking into account the climates and gravity on these different moons/planets would be great.

Indeed, there are lots of cool and interesting possibilities including going down into cavern systems and having to uses headlamps to see around.

Allot depends on the success of Lunar Flight and if I will be able to invest in full time development on a new title. I hope to bring on additional team members which will make it possible to increase the games scope.

First thing I thought about when you said that was the old 2D Amiga game Gravity Force. The would be great in 3D! 😎 Asteroids would be riddled with caverns 😉 Although having a scanning radar might be useful too in such conditions.

I am very impressed with that Earth! How did you guys get it to look so good?

Just noticed that Lunar Flight is on Steam now and it's on sale too $7.99.

I hope to try the demo very soon and do a small write up on this one. But until then let us know what you think?

Email me mate and I'll give you some Steam keys.

Sorry for the delay Shovor, I have posted the Lunar Flight review to the blog area: http://spacesimcentral.com/?p=792

Had a fun time with the game even when I was running out of fuel or I mis-judged my speed and I hit the ground too hard. Youtube videos and screenshots don't tell the whole story about how Lunar Flight really plays. You kinda have to play it to know just how challenging and fun the game is at the same time. I do hope you have a demo coming soon (even just a one mission demo), because I think that would help boost some sales.

GamersGate is having a sale on Lunar Flight, where you can get it for $2.50.

So what are you waiting for go get it already.

I would second that, the best $2.50 you will spend in a long while 😉

I can't believe I didn't post this sooner or Sh0vor did give us a heads up. A few updates ago Shovsoft added the planet Mars to Lunar Flight for free, so if you were waiting to buy this game I would probably do it now because this game has some really nice gameplay and realism. 

Awesome, Titan in the next update? Please please please!! :girlcrazy:

Steam has it on sale at the moment.

Have they any plans to put different types of lander in.

I would like to see the Russian Lunar Lander in the game. They did build then y'know even if they never flew

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Russian, Chinese, European must have had plans for a lander so it would be good to see some variation in the game.  

Here is a nice update for Lunar Flight:

Article here:  http://www.shovsoft.com/lunarflight/?p=389

Multiplayer (1.7)

I am currently working on version 1.7 which will be a significant update that will finally add Multiplayer. I have already made significant progress on it but still have some amount of work to go before it will be released, I am aiming for a late February release. Due to the fact that Lunar Flight was developed before adding Multiplayer some systems are having to be redesigned to support synchronization of their state between clients and the server.

 

I also want to look at adding some ‘Multiplayer’ specific game modes but have yet to decide what that will be. There will be a simple Free mode where multiple people can play in the same map and conduct missions independently. One mode I have been thinking about is a race to reach a set XP score within a certain amount of time, additional modes maybe added in future updates.

 

LAN and Online play will be supported, LAN mode will auto discover any servers on the local network. I am planning to have a Master Server listing to make it easier to find a server to play on. You can select which map to play on, add a password, add a region name, limit the number of players. The region name is an optional setting and if you want to open your game to the public and improve the chances of getting people in your region to play. For example I will added ‘Australia’ and people browsing the server listing can see that my server is in Australia.

 

When you connect to a server you start off in a ‘Lobby’ view where you can see a list of available bases you can spawn at and chat with other players. (Voice chat is being considered also)

If all 4 bases on a map are occupied, any other players waiting to spawn will have to wait until one is available. Like wise players wanting to land at an occupied base will have to land nearby and wait for the pad to be clear.

 

I will be contacting some people to offer the chance to test it for a closed Beta stage soon.

Difficulty Settings

I have been wanting to make the game more accessible and plan to introduce a set of Difficulty options.  These settings will affect the rewards you receive when completing a Mission, having the Easy settings enabled will drastically reduce the mission rewards earned.

• Unlimited Fuel
• Indestructible
• Auto Leveling
• Accurate Landing

Miscellaneous Fixes and Polish

1.7 will also contain any bug fixes that have been reported and also a few little polish improvements.

Oculus Rift VR Support – April 

I am a backer of the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality devkit and am expecting my devkit to arrive near the end of March. Unity is adding support for it and I intend to add a mode to support it. This mode will most likely limit the Camera to Full Scren HUD mode when turned on but I will have to wait to see and do some experimenting with it. I plan to take the Rift with me to PAX AU in July to demo it to the press which I hope will help Lunar Flights exposure by being one of the only Oculus products on display. The Oculus mode will be added in a future update after the 1.7 update, this will only really be useful to those who have a devkit, until Oculus release their consumer grade kit to market in 2014.

What I liked most about this update is the difficulty settings, I am a extreme fuel waster and that is usually my demise on the surface of the moon 🙂

Lunar Flight now has Multiplayer for these that like that sort of thing.

http://www.shovsoft.com/lunarflight/?p=397

Long time since anyone posted an update for Lunar Flight and it now has Rift support.