It is great that people are still interested in trying Iridium Rising. I am sorry for all the problems that people have been experiencing. This is a hobby project with only two of us working on it in our spare time and unfortunately that time has been very limited over the past few months. However, ...

Thanks everyone who has already tried the game or plans to. Instructions for installing the game can be found at http://www.iridiumrising.co.uk. Hopefully it is fairly straightforward but please let us know if anything is not clear or you have any problems.

My name is Ben and I am a computational astrophysicist. I was lucky enough to get my Pi a few weeks ago, and have been very impressed with how powerful such a small, inexpensive device is proving to be. I have various ideas of what I'd like to do with my Pi, but one of the first is games development...

If you haven't had a chance to check out Iridium Rising yet, here are a couple of screenshots to give you a better idea about the game. http://iridiumrising.co.uk/images/IMG_0051.png http://iridiumrising.co.uk/images/IMG_0057.png RockHawk and I will be online playing the game this afternoon at 14:00...