Entry for the 2004 Wolverine Soft Game Development Contest Extravaganza!
Theme: Freedom.

After the invasion of Earth, only a few people are left and their freedom won't exist if they don't get away to some new planet. You are the leader of these people and to get them to freedom, you gather the remaining humans, get them in an airship and head to a new area where they can have their freedom. You run into an asteroid shower. Your ship is a strong one so if you crash into one of the asteroids you and your people will live, but Freedom Ship will no longer be in flying condition - it'll land you on the nearest landable area. You want to last as long as you can without crashing into an asteroid because you want to get as far away from Earth as possible. You go at it with brute force and try to shoot all the asteroids out of space but... your guns are down. Avoid the asteroids for as long as you can!

Controls - Arrow Keys to manuever the ship

Freedom Ship was made using SDL.

Screenshots:
In-Game Shot
Horrible 'Crash' Screen
The High Score =P

Download Source: Contest Entry.zip(28.1KB)

See the Development Log
See the Post-mortem
Get the Mac OS X / Linux patch. Compile on OS X and Linux with the command line g++ -o freedomship *.cpp `sdl-config --cflags --libs`

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