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Rotor Command

Top-down helicopter action over jungle islands and rivers – convoys, flak, hostages and a fortress. Paused while development continues in sister game Rotor Assault.

Play Rotor Command

Opens at everydaygames.se/rotor-command/

The Rotor Command logo over a jungle with a river, a waterfall and an enemy base with radar, anti-aircraft guns and a burning convoy.

Maturity

  1. Idea(completed)
  2. Prototype(completed)
  3. Alpha(completed)
  4. Beta(current stage)
  5. Promoted

Paused Resting for now. What was built is still here and works as far as it goes.

About the project

Rotor Command is a top-down action game in the spirit of the classic arcade helicopter games. You fly Eagle One over jungle and river delta, and aiming is separate from flying – you shoot where you aim, not where the nose points.

The day after it was published, the game became the foundation for Rotor Assault, which added a tank and tactical missions. What sets Rotor Command apart is its mission structure: the jungle islands, the convoys, the hostages and the fortress. That is the part that could find its way back into the main game or become the basis for a sequel of its own.

Current state

What works

  • Three missions – Training Grounds, Jungle Island and River Assault – that end at a guarded fortress
  • Convoys to stop, anti-aircraft guns to take out and hostages to winch up and fly home
  • Cannon, rockets and homing missiles, with fuel, armour and ammunition to keep an eye on
  • Rescued crew give bonuses; best score, time and medal are saved per mission
  • Fully remappable keyboard, mouse, touch and gamepad
  • Voiced radio chatter, music that follows the action and original graphics
  • 79 commits and 37 test files, with a bot that plays through the missions

What isn’t finished

  • Helicopter only – the tank and the tactical missions are in Rotor Assault
  • More missions and a shared leaderboard are on the roadmap but not built
  • No service worker, so the game can't be played offline

Why is this project on BSite?

  • Not actively maintained right now

Rotor Command works and is playable from start to finish, but development continued in the fork Rotor Assault on EverydayGames – with a tank, three tactical missions and offline play. Two near-identical helicopter games on the same portal compete with each other. Still, Rotor Command has a mission structure of its own that is worth keeping, so it is paused rather than archived.

Screenshots

  • The Eagle One helicopter over dense jungle, with the mission objectives in the top left, a minimap in the top right and armour, fuel, ammunition and score along the bottom.
  • The helicopter hovers over a village in a jungle clearing as the RESCUE meter fills up.
  • The battle at the fortress – enemy helicopters, tanks, anti-aircraft towers and explosions on a gravel yard.

Development log

  1. Paused and moved to BSite. The game stays at the same address, everydaygames.se/rotor-command/.

  2. Forked into Rotor Assault, where development continues.

  3. Published on EverydayGames after three plans in two days.

  4. Design specification and visual reference written; the build began.