Booster Catcher
A downloadable game
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
Download
Install instructions
- Log in to your Playdate Account at play.date.
- Go to your Account page.
- Go to the Sideload page.
- Drag or select the .pdx game file (or zipped .pdx) to upload it.
There are also other ways to install games onto your playdate. You can find more instructions in the Official Sideloading Guide.
Comments
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I enjoyed playing this and I keep replaying it 😊 Really cool smoke effects. Do you plan to work on it some more? The booster noise was a bit too high even in the lowest volume setting; that was the only thing I found a bit annoying.