unlike regular asteroids where you can keep track of your ship bc you only have to follow one object around the screen and you control it it seems like the hardest part of this game is finding the ships. esp. when they star to be multiple
shapes. it would lightly break the vibe but making the ships a different color would help a lot.
Sniffnoy 10 hours ago [-]
It's especially bad that they can hide behind the UI sometimes...
SillyUsername 12 hours ago [-]
I preferred it without colour, half of the fun is finding the ships, like a where's wally/waldo
throwawayffffas 8 hours ago [-]
At least one of the ships is shaped very close to the smallest asteroids making it very hard to track.
blueaquilae 13 hours ago [-]
Second that. Colors is a requirement.
Yet I loved the concept.
zargon 14 hours ago [-]
Fun for about 5 minutes but screeches to a halt when ships start to teleport. Only takes a few minutes to be able to get to wave 12 and then there's no progress after that.
xingped 4 hours ago [-]
Yeah, the teleporting was an exceedingly annoying and un-fun mechanic. In games, players don't like when something happens without warning and are unable to react to it. This is why we have telegraphing. Dev, if you want to keep the mechanic, give it a charge up time and an indicator of the impending direction of a warp. Otherwise, funny idea for a game.
xbar 4 hours ago [-]
I agree that the idea that some number of teleporting ships scales past the ability to bring enough chaotic asteroids to bear on them seems like a design problem. For me, that was six ships on wave 14. The field is rapidly emptied of threats.
ricardobeat 9 hours ago [-]
May I suggest removing/rephrashing the "you are not the ship" subtitle. It's obvious AI "this button is not red" phrasing that cheapens it a bit.
kridsdale1 5 hours ago [-]
I disagree. The subtitle was half the fun for me.
ricardobeat 1 hours ago [-]
And this is why we'll have to live with AI slop for the next decade
vtemp009 9 hours ago [-]
"Are you not Asleep?" is the one question AI cannot answer
fercircularbuf 17 hours ago [-]
Nice. This makes me want to play a number of games as the bad guy.
appplication 15 hours ago [-]
Space invaders but you’re the invaders would be fun. And I have to assume it’s already been done.
On a different note, Rampage was a great game where you’re the bad guy. I had a blast playing this as a kid.
Steve16384 9 hours ago [-]
I created a reverse Space Invaders a few months ago, but I struggled to get it to be a fun game as you just move left and right avoiding the players bullets. (I'd post a gif, but it looks exactly like Space Invaders to watch).
invader 12 hours ago [-]
Yes, like Destroy All Humans, Alien Hominid... Not arcades, though.
thih9 13 hours ago [-]
You likely know this but in case not: Dungeon Keeper series.
Sim City was already a "you are the bad guys" game!
The creator of Sim City was working on a game called Raid on Bungeling Bay" [1] where your job was to bomb a fully functional civilization into the stone age. He had so much fun developing the civilization that he decided to make a game of it.
So maybe we just need a "Raid on Bungling Bay Redux: Massacre of The Sims".
> Creative Computing in 1984 said that the game "push[es] the animation capabilities of the Commodore 64 to their very limits". The magazine concluded that it would become "one of the all-time great computer games".
Gaming journalism didn't only recently become ridiculous, it turns out.
egypturnash 4 hours ago [-]
Smooth full-screen scrolling on the c64 was hard. In the years since 1984 people discovered ways to use unintended behavior in the c64's video chips to move a lot more of the screen around seamlessly, but ROBB's fast omnidirectional scrolling was pretty slick for a game from the same year the c64 came out.
Raid Over Bungelling Bay grew into Sim City, which had remakes over two decades and spawned an entire genre of "city builders", I think there is indeed an argument that it became an "all-time great".
dguest 5 hours ago [-]
There's still plenty of time for a successor!
doctorhandshake 5 hours ago [-]
Crawl is a great one. Rouguelike where when you die you inhabit the dungeon.
RobotToaster 6 hours ago [-]
In board games there's "kill doctor lucky" which is reverse cluedo/clue.
dgently7 16 hours ago [-]
agree there are probably a bunch that would be fun.
packman, play as a ghost and need to multi task to get all the ghosts in a spot to trap pacman
donkey kong, play as donkey and try to time barrel throws to hit mario
galaga, play as the fleet, control left right of the whole fleet and have the 3-4 different "attacks" you could send out.
razorbeamz 12 hours ago [-]
Nintendo and Namco made a multiplayer Pac-Man for GameCube where three players play as ghosts on Game Boy Advances and can see the whole map, while one player plays as Pac-Man with a limited view.
latexr 8 hours ago [-]
I second (from another comment) the suggestion for CARRION. Think of it like those 80’s movies where an amorphous creature is captured/created and stuck in a lab. You play as the creature, trying to get out.
Also, not exactly playing as the bad guy but Enemy Mind is a fun tangential concept where instead of having your own ammo and life, you’re constantly possessing enemy ships and using their resources, before discarding them for the next one.
Coincidentally it’s now with 60% discount and it’s worth it at that price. If I recall (it’s been many years since I played it) the game was short and didn’t have a lot going for it outside the gimmick.
pmontra 14 hours ago [-]
The Wizard of Yendor.
fho 13 hours ago [-]
Rogue Like Celebration is _now_. Great video coverage on YouTube
One of the most frustrating things about mobile gaming is that you can't just release a game, you have to commit to keeping it updated for the rest of your life or else accept that in 2-3 years nobody will be able to play it.
Sniffnoy 10 hours ago [-]
So I got a really high score before I signed in, only signed in afterwards, and now, even though my high score displays on the "best wave" display for me, it's nowhere on the global high score board. I'm just going to have to, like, get it again somehow?? That's annoying.
RugnirViking 8 hours ago [-]
game is sideways on my portrait monitor!
p2detar 12 hours ago [-]
Neat game! I managed to get to level 11 but got beat up.
There can be a set of really cool things one can do with Asteroids. Some years ago I made a game which is a mix of Asteroids+Bomberman+Pacman.
The controls/rules are pretty unclear. This thing could use a controls/rules option.
nnevatie 8 hours ago [-]
Since not all asteroids are pulled to the gravity simultaneously, some kind of background starfield could make it clearer that the camera/viewport is moving.
daitangio 8 hours ago [-]
Very fun!
I sucks playing asteroids, here I am an Ace!
Morromist 16 hours ago [-]
Its a fun game! The only thing I would add is the ability to see the players cry and lose their quarters after you smash their ship.
Vishal_Max 10 hours ago [-]
The game is pretty confusing i still do not understand how to play this the right way a guide there would make it good.
jasonjmcghee 17 hours ago [-]
Fun twist on the game!
I didn't play for too long, but I just clicked between the ship and asteroids and near-instantly destroyed it, quickly passing the waves I played.
Is there difficulty ramp later on?
baruz 17 hours ago [-]
The number of ships increases, and then the speed, and then the accuracy with which they fire. The gravity generator seems slower to recharge, and the asteroids are slower to generate, or that may be subjective.
baruz 13 hours ago [-]
Different ships that can survive and bounce on slower or glancing hits, shields, more maneuverable saucer ships. Wave fifteen the ships reload and fire really rapidly, decimated a crowded field in seconds.
baruz 17 hours ago [-]
Around wave ten, I think the ships can teleport.
Brian_K_White 17 hours ago [-]
yes
tommica 12 hours ago [-]
Oh this is a fun game! Just keep moving the asteroids non-stop, that way you can catch them when they spawn
Great Game! I think we'd all have an easier time with color added, which is why this game is challenging in a good way. Side-note: I beat 9th place globally! Let's go.
Founderarcstone 14 hours ago [-]
Really awesome this makes me want to play old school games
jmspring 17 hours ago [-]
Nicely done. Took a minute to figure out.
andsoitis 17 hours ago [-]
Feature request: support LRUD.
lacoolj 3 hours ago [-]
now go make "Bowser: Kidnap the Princess"
Thanks!
senectus1 15 hours ago [-]
oh i really like this idea. very cool
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On a different note, Rampage was a great game where you’re the bad guy. I had a blast playing this as a kid.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/
The creator of Sim City was working on a game called Raid on Bungeling Bay" [1] where your job was to bomb a fully functional civilization into the stone age. He had so much fun developing the civilization that he decided to make a game of it.
So maybe we just need a "Raid on Bungling Bay Redux: Massacre of The Sims".
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Bungeling_Bay
Gaming journalism didn't only recently become ridiculous, it turns out.
Raid Over Bungelling Bay grew into Sim City, which had remakes over two decades and spawned an entire genre of "city builders", I think there is indeed an argument that it became an "all-time great".
donkey kong, play as donkey and try to time barrel throws to hit mario
galaga, play as the fleet, control left right of the whole fleet and have the 3-4 different "attacks" you could send out.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/
Also, not exactly playing as the bad guy but Enemy Mind is a fun tangential concept where instead of having your own ammo and life, you’re constantly possessing enemy ships and using their resources, before discarding them for the next one.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/285840/Enemy_Mind/
Coincidentally it’s now with 60% discount and it’s worth it at that price. If I recall (it’s been many years since I played it) the game was short and didn’t have a lot going for it outside the gimmick.
for those who want to have easter egg on their pet projects with konami cheat code
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.ivanludvig....
There can be a set of really cool things one can do with Asteroids. Some years ago I made a game which is a mix of Asteroids+Bomberman+Pacman.
https://kenamick.itch.io/spaceghost-cga
I didn't play for too long, but I just clicked between the ship and asteroids and near-instantly destroyed it, quickly passing the waves I played.
Is there difficulty ramp later on?
Thanks!