Booster Catcher

Booster Catcher is a game demo I built in a week for rae jam 2025. Thanks for organising it, rae!

Goal: Land the booster in the "chopsticks" as soon as you can!

It's got the framework of a fun game.

• Land a rocket booster in the tower catcher
• Fun physics, particles, and more!
• A few sample levels - the booster starts in different positions
• Saved high scores / best times

Future enhancements:

• variety in the levels (e.g. dark? lunar gravity? better obstacles? clouds? wind? fog?)
• input mechanisms: crank to thrust or steer
•  music
• better sound effects (no samples used here)
• artwork in general :-)
• well, also other polishing in general
• playtesting at all, only me!

Controls:

• Press A to thrust
• Press B to stop thruster
• left and Right to steer

Levels have different amounts of thrust "assist" as show on the HUD.

Technical:

• Built using the Playdate C SDK. No other libraries.
• No graphics assets, all graphics built at runtime.

by robga