Kerbal Space Program 0.8.0

By: Derek Yu

On: July 11th, 2011

Kerbal Space Program, by Felipe Falanghe

Kerbal Space Program is an in-development simulation game that lets you operate your own space shuttle program. In the current release, you can build a multi-stage rocket out of various parts (e.g. propusion systems, decouplers, and fins), launch it, and operate it as you try to take your adorable astronauts higher into the stratosphere… or blow them up as creatively as possible. There aren’t a ton of parts available right now, but the game is easily moddable, and fans are already developing their own on the game’s forums.

Eventually, creator Felipe Falanghe wants to let players hire and manage crew, take missions, and even build space stations on different worlds.

(Source: Something Awful Forums)

  • http://www.wademcgillis.com Wade McGillis

    The Kerbal will become a better race than mankind.

  • Kris

    Low hanging fruit

  • Piecewise66

    Can you play this without a joystick? I went into the control editor and it’s giving me nothing except joystick controls.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, using a WASD format. There’s a tutorial in-game.

  • Gnome

    Looks very promising; very promising indeed.

  • Gnome

    Looks very promising; very promising indeed.

  • SSsssss

    Do you get to watch their faces when you make it go ‘blooy?

  • Irock

    This has a ton of potential. Time to read a physics book so I can learn how to go into orbit.

  • Mikko Suihko

    Fun and entertaining even now! It’s mostly sandbox now, but hopefully there will be more long term goals and such. It would be nice if you could speed up the time or know when you have achieved escape velocity or orbit.

  • http://www.agfgames.com speeder

    I have high expectations from this, specially considering who is the author (a friend that went to university with me)