Han Solo was an excellent pilot. Are you? Arrow keys. Land GENTLY on the platform, away from the edges. It's a very short game.
Upgrade of Vanravenstein's good idea for a short game. @Vanravenstein : Step one was code cleanup, everything in one loop, small adjustments to keep the gameplay more or less the same. (Understanding your code and showing vertical speed value I understood why it was so hard to land without a crash...) Sadly I overwrote this first step without a backup for you to see the changes... Second step, unused variables removed I added a gravity variable and matched the moves with horizontal and vertical speeds (for real...) Then ... I added a warning for down speed too fast and played with sounds, vocal synthesis for warning and speed if fail, sound for the motor's thrust. It's a little bit easier to land but easy to adjust with gravity variable and the "DangerZone" coefficient (the lower, the harder... 4 x gravity seems OK to me). Feel free to copy it on your initial project if you like it (I hope you will), I won't let the remix here forever... P.D.: Finally, added phantom effect on title, corrected bugs with title spaceship disappearing too late, flames behind the platform, press a key to play again and overall score and vertical speed if success.