Depths of Venus

Skulltip Productions c2021

This is just the ataribasic code, you would need to either paste it into an emulator such as Altirra, or get it onto a real atari 8bit machine :)  It's only 10 lines, why not type it in and run it?

One of the first basic 'runner' types, I saw no replay value in this when playing around with something similar on a C64 back in the 80s. Perhaps because I played alot of handheld LED and atari2600 games with a simple race car theme with no end. 

To player, use the joystick to move left or right, ESC to quit or 'Y' to restart after the game ends.

With this game jam, I figure if I create some interesting graphics to help it out with a backstory, so here goes..

It is the year 2069. Mankind has established a couple of colonies on the moon and Mars and has begun to extend their reach into space. The next profitable destination for the Star Cos multi-corporation (SCMC) is Venus. Up until now, barely anything entering the harsh environment of Venus survived for long. Thanks to new technologies using micro-gravity physics and virtual shielding, a craft can safely navigate through the atmosphere with no long term effects to the ship or crew. The SCMC has built such a ship called the 'Marintha' and hired you; the AI of the future is not as promising as investors made it appear in the 40s. As a trail blazer you must fly over the surface, mapping terrain. Flying through canyons just below the cloud layer affords a smoother ride but if careless, can lead to crashing into a large boulder or the side of a cliff. You would lose your money, life and worse the stakeholders' property. Happy trails!