Planet X

Rescue all the lost escape pods! Arrow keys control your ship, and touching the planets surface will damage your ship. Watch out for mines and volcanic eruptiions which will damage your ships shield. Collect more energy and bonus points for higher scores.

This was well fun to make and was inspired by a workmate who was trying to make a moonlander clone. So I decided I would have a go, and it turned into this. I used a lot of flash 8 effects (duh) to make the graphics half-decent while saving on fie size. I hand drew the levels with a wacom tablet and placed all the items and enemies by trial and error. I just started using flash 8 when I used this and had a bit of trouble understanding how to optimise the new features to make the game run well. All things considered I’m fairly happy with it, though I would like to improve the graphics someday.