Hedgehog Launch - neat twist on launcher games

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You launch a hedgehog up and collect coins and try to hit launchers to boost him up higher. After each day you get money to purchase upgrades. The ultimate goal is to get the hedgehog into orbit.

I did it in 20 days.

Pretty fun. On day 14 I had an absurd run that earned me $75,551. I was able to buy every upgrade and I had a bit more than $52,000 left over.

Day 15 I earned 235 thousand but was unable to reach orbit ( i guess using the booster is not additive to your speed, so it actually slowed me down).

Day 16 I reached orbit without doing anything, just a straightup launch.

I guess I didn't get it...I did ultimately reach orbit, but it took a great many launches, and I bought all the rocket assist stuff as I went.

I found the thing nearly impossible to manuver for any productive purpose.

I'm really not doing something right.

Ah. The Bill Clinton strategy.

19 out of every 20 launches resulted in NO PLATFORMS.

I can't get anywhere with it. I'm making $0.00 to $1.00 per launch, and I'm launching really fucking fast and far when I start.

???

The controls are a touch sensitive but I really enjoyed this once I got into it. The kids watched me figure it out and we just laughed at how silly the whole thing was.

Good find!!

7 days on my second shot.

Ohhhh hohohoh that was fun!

It took me 25 days on my first go (I had to figure out what the in-game benefit of each upgrade was), and I'm about to start round two.

I think a much more fun way of playing this is seeing how much money you can make in a day.

I just got $151,276.10 for a single days flight

Nice! I achieved orbit on day 15 my second go, day 11 on my third.

Now I am going to try for the max cash angle. Radar and parachutes. radar and parachutes!

Is there some trick to launching? I'm just pulling it back and letting it go...any other way (like "helping" by moving the mouse) results in launch pad tragedy. Even with the best launch I could muster, I'm getting, like, $5 per day. I went straight up, hit one platform, grab a couple of small coins, and came straight back down...steering made little difference...there was nothing on the way down to hit.

The more horizontal speed you can get once in the air the better. Just pull it down then let go, wait until you reach the highest point then rocket left or right.

I did that. I flew past two platforms. Then I flew past one.

Then I didn't see any and made $0.00

This happened about 10 times.

Here's my strategy:

Buy parachutes, radar, and e-rockets while buying launcher upgrades. Lauch up, and at the height of the launch use as many e-rocket boosts as you have, then before you begin falling hit the parachute and drift to the left or right. If you see a gold coin nearby, aim for it - they're $5 each. When a platform shows up on the radar, aim for it (I don't bother if it's a purple one, I go for the green & yellow ones).

If you don't see any other platforms nearby on the radar after the launcher jump, hit the parachute again and continue drifting until the next platform. Do this until you run out of parachutes, then just fall to the earth.

Even if you only get a few dollars from coins/platforms, you'll have been in the air for 2-3 minutes and have rocketed yourself up a couple thousand feet, and that should net some big multipliers.

23 days on my first go, 14 on my second. I'm sure I can get it down a bit but I doubt I'll be able to get into single figures.

Beat that.

Nine days, mostly due to the tips in this thread!

No friggin' way can you do it on day 4! (Or, if you can, I'm still doing something very, very wrong. What are you people getting on day 1?!? What are you buying on day 2, 3, etc.?)

I launch on day 1 and day 2 and get only high enough to hit one "bumper" before coming back down. There are NO other things to hit on the way down and unless there's some trick, I see no way to get more than a handful of dollars on the first few gos.

Got it down to day 10, so I might get single figures after all.

This is my best daily earnings, although it was on day 13 when I should have been in orbit.