Awesome!
This game was sweet! It kept me entertained for a short while and that's all I asked for! Perfect! For such a simple game, it sure was interesting.
I see alot of people whining about it, the ship was too hard to control and what not... Well I guess that just depends on how good of a gamer you are. I personally found it easy.
I liked the music, it wasn't really annoying. Although when I muted the music, I couldn't un-mute it. The trail of red stuff coming out of the back of the rocket was a nice touch, it gave you a sense of speed and direction.
When you approached an asteroid it generously slowed you down and turned you upright to the rock itself. That was pretty sweet, so even if you were coming in way to fast, you'd be alright. The story was pretty fresh you know, even though it was short it was really interesting. The way you bridged each objective together was smart, I didn't really get bored.
The whole mining process was awesome, different colour ore ect. It was really sweet. It gave me a sense of satisfaction mining loads of ore, hah.
My little rover didn't seem to take damage though when I was attacked by ze bug things, but that didn't bother me, the whole missle thing was awesome, such a kick ass system, where the rocket would explode where you had clicked it, genius.
I liked how you had to work on the upgrades to get to certain places, even if it didn't take long, that sense of "gotta be stonger if you wanna go there" really worked. It made me want to upgrade the little rover more so.
I can't really fault this game, it's one of those classics. Far from perfect yet even further from faulty. This game is ace. Great job! I can only give a few bits of advice, like to fix the un-muting music part, to maybe give the rover some Health, have a little button that requests your mission objectives again if you forget... Aaaand that's pretty much it! I mean, those few things would make it even better! I suppose you could go mental and re-vamp the graphics but that's a luxury really, I enjoyed playing this game for what it was!
I look forward to seeing more of your work! I hope you won that contest too!