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2. Player Guide

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Game Objective

MarsLander is currently in early development, but that's not to say that it isn't playable.

Currently the objective is to get the highest score possible. Challenge your friends!

Keyboard controls

Controlling the Lander

<UP>/W/Num8 - Fire lander's engine.

<RIGHT>/D/Num6 - Rotate lander clockwise.

<LEFT>/A/Num4 - Rotate lander counter-clockwise.

Q/Num7 - Fire port side thruster.

E/Num9 - Fire starboard side thruster.

Q/E/Num7/Num9 will also deploy the parachute if you bought one

Land safely on the landing pads to get more fuel. Don't let gravity crash you.

Once on the landing pads you can purchase extra modules to upgrade your lander.

Other game controls

P - Pause the game.

O - Game settings.

<ESC> - Escape the current screen and eventually return to then main menu and exit the game.

Game settings

Click the SETTINGS button from the main menu or press the 'o'ptions key while in-game. You can set your player name and change other settings here.

Multi-player support

Mars Lander supports multiplayer. One player needs to start the game as a host and provide the host IP address and host port number to all the clients. The IP address and port will appear at the top of the screen.

Clients need to enter the host IP and the host port into the main menu and then join as client. It is useful if the host and all players set their player name through the settings window (see above).

Fly with your friends as far as you can. When you run out of fuel you can reset your lander with the <ENTER> key and try again.

To restart ALL landers press the R key.