Your mission is reach the Jump Gate to escape. You begin abored a Refinery Ship (Mothership seems more fitting really) which displays your Storage Tanks of the three main resources required; Hyper Fuel: Used for Planet/Anomoly jumps. Energy: Used for Self healing, replenishing your stock for the use of tools/weapons & repairing your Lander Craft. Fuel: Used to refuel your Jetpack & Lander Craft. Other resources are required for Crafting. Easily figured out!

Three screens give access to - A Galaxy Map: For planning jumps or routes. Crafting/Upgrading: for various things you have (except for the Grappling Hook ATM) & a Stats screen: Tracks score, etc. A seperate room with a medical facility keeps you healthy & refuels your Jetpack. A Docking Lift for your Lander Craft which highers & lowers accordingly. Lander repairs & refueling begin when fully lowered. A red siren alerts you when the lift lowering the Lander is obstructed in some way. Last but not least is the housed Refinery. Its red conveyor beam is in the lower part of the Mother... errr Refinery ship which pushes resources & objects left to be vacummed upwards for refining.

ATM The main tools you tediously use are a Grappling Hook & a jetpack. The weapon you have is a pistol. Its projectile depends on the upgrade level. I do hope more tools/equipment are considered being added. The Lander Craft. The LC is your primary way of getting around a Planet. Its fast, has a gun, (Of little use - only fires upwards) & is capable of lifting items attached to it by the Grappling Hook. The LC is remote controlled. Allowing seperate control while you are somewhere else!! The biggest drawback of The LC are the controls. Basically the controls are analog based which means players with controllers will have little problems. But for KB/Mouse players, without a doubt ATM its the most cumbersome Craft in terms of handling on a KB than any other Ive experienced. Its just to sensitive. Newbees will struggle. In saying that, with time and practice you will get better. Oh & one more thing, DONT lose your LC cus ATM no replacement is available!!! You can still continue but its a hard up hill struggle.

UPDATE:
A save upon exiting & a continue upon restart as been added. See Forum for details. The Lander Craft controls have been improved.

Summary:
Space Bob shows a lot of potential & the Devs are very active.

Ive absolutely hammered this game since purchase & loved every minute of it. Well worth the price - great value. Sweet simple graphics & for an EA game right now, the gameplay is amazing & addictive.

Your mission is reach the Jump Gate to escape. You begin abored a Refinery Ship (Mothership seems more fitting really) which displays your Storage Tanks of the three main resources required; Hyper Fuel: Used for Planet/Anomoly jumps. Energy: Used for Self healing, replenishing your stock for the use of tools/weapons & repairing your Lander Craft. Fuel: Used to refuel your Jetpack & Lander Craft. Other resources are required for Crafting. Easily figured out! Three screens give access to - A Galaxy Map: For planning jumps or routes. Crafting/Upgrading: for various things you have (except for the Grappling Hook ATM) & a Stats screen: Tracks score, etc. A seperate room with a medical facility keeps you healthy & refuels your Jetpack. A Docking Lift for your Lander Craft which highers & lowers accordingly. Lander repairs & refueling begin when fully lowered. A red siren alerts you when the lift lowering the Lander is obstructed in some way. Last but not least is the housed Refinery. Its red conveyor beam is in the lower part of the Mother... errr Refinery ship which pushes resources & objects left to be vacummed upwards for refining. ATM The main tools you [b]tediously[/b] use are a Grappling Hook & a jetpack. The weapon you have is a pistol. Its projectile depends on the upgrade level. I do hope more tools/equipment are considered being added. The Lander Craft. The LC is your primary way of getting around a Planet. Its fast, has a gun, (Of little use - only fires upwards) & is capable of lifting items attached to it by the Grappling Hook. The LC is remote controlled. Allowing seperate control while you are somewhere else!! The biggest drawback of The LC are the controls. Basically the controls are analog based which means players with controllers will have little problems. But for KB/Mouse players, without a doubt ATM its the most cumbersome Craft in terms of handling on a KB than any other Ive experienced. Its just to sensitive. Newbees will struggle. In saying that, with time and practice you will get better. Oh & one more thing, DONT lose your LC cus ATM no replacement is available!!! You can still continue but its a hard up hill struggle. UPDATE: [b]A save upon exiting & a continue upon restart as been added. See Forum for details. The Lander Craft controls have been improved.[/b] Summary: Space Bob shows a lot of potential & the Devs are very active. Ive absolutely hammered this game since purchase & loved every minute of it. Well worth the price - great value. Sweet simple graphics & for an EA game right now, the gameplay is amazing & addictive.