ARESYN

ARESYN is a Mars rover exploration game built from scratch for iPhone and iPad. You command MRV-7 Meridian, a six-wheeled science rover, across five regions of a procedurally generated Mars. FIVE REGIONS, GENERATED RATHER THAN DRAWN Ares Landing Basin, Crimson Canyon, Elysium Dunes, Olympus Frontier and Noctis Labyrinth. Every rock, dune and ridgeline is generated at runtime from a custom terrain system rather than placed by hand, so no two expeditions cross identical ground. Each region has its own geology, colour and hazards — the dunes will bog a rover that enters them too fast, and Noctis will drop a wheel into a fissure you failed to read. THE ROVER IS THE GAME The vehicle physics is an original implementation, not an off-the-shelf component: six independently loaded wheels, a suspension model with real travel and articulation, traction that changes with the surface under each…