A lightly salted browser game
The old landmark gets an interplanetary retirement plan.
Give the former Bethlehem Steel headquarters the send-off it deserves — straight up, ideally toward Mars. Enter the launch codes, cross the meteoroid field, and land on whatever fuel is left.
Keyboard, gamepad or touch. Your name and best score are saved in this browser — and a completed Mars landing posts to the board below.
It's a chunky WebAssembly download — give it a second, and reload if the screen stays blank.
The board resets on the 1st of every month — whoever is top when it turns is crowned in the Hall of Fame below, and everyone starts the new month from zero. Only a completed Mars landing posts a score, and scores are set from inside the game, which redeems a one-time ticket to submit them — there is no way to post one from this page.
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Fuel is a single resource threaded through the whole mission. What Level 1 banks is what Levels 2 and 3 have to spend — so sloppy launch codes strand you halfway to Mars.
A rhythm chart on a single ticker tape. Three kinds of note — Up, Down, Use — run left into the hit line, and each one you match banks fuel. Two markers sit on the gauge: ORBIT is what the climb alone costs, MISSION is what the whole trip needs. Clear only ORBIT and you reach space, then strand.
Thirty-five seconds of meteoroid field where fuel only ever drains. The rocks are destructible piles of rubble, not sprites — knock chunks off and both the rock and its hitbox shrink. The tower fires a stream of molten steel, which costs fuel to hold but makes a rock you break up free, where one you ram is not.
A lunar-lander descent in real units: descent, drift and tilt read out in px/s, green inside the safe envelope and red outside it. Flat ground is marked with teal pads — the narrower the pad, the bigger the multiplier. From round 3 on, Martian dust blows across the descent.
Martin Tower was Bethlehem Steel's headquarters — the tallest building in the Lehigh Valley, and for decades a symbol of the company that built it. It came down in 2019.
This is its alternate ending: instead of a demolition, a launch. It began as a LÖVE 2D prototype from the workshop's odder shelf, and has since been rewritten from scratch in C with raylib — new physics, a fuel economy that runs across all three levels, and a worldwide leaderboard. It compiles to WebAssembly, so it still runs right in your browser.
Some assembly may have occurred.
Land slow, land flat, and land on a pad. The narrower the pad, the bigger the bonus.