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Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

46 points zdw 3 days ago 15 comments

fercircularbuf 50 minutes ago | parent

Nice. This makes me want to play a number of games as the bad guy.

dgently7 25 minutes ago | parent

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.

itomato 24 minutes ago | parent

Mr. Don’t? “Centimpede”

jmspring 50 minutes ago | parent

Nicely done. Took a minute to figure out.

jasonjmcghee 50 minutes ago | parent

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 35 minutes ago | parent

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 29 minutes ago | parent

Around wave ten, I think the ships can teleport.

Brian_K_White 31 minutes ago | parent

yes

linsomniac 45 minutes ago | parent

I did a "Asteroid as an FPS" a couple months ago, play it here: https://linsomniac.github.io/roidbelt/

natnatenathan 35 minutes ago | parent

it's beautiful, well done!

BobbyTables2 22 minutes ago | parent

That’s really cool! Neat cross of the old tank game with the wireframe graphics and asteroids!

vibrio 10 minutes ago | parent

Batttlezone was the tank game.

andsoitis 34 minutes ago | parent

Feature request: support LRUD.

dgently7 29 minutes ago | parent

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.

Morromist 12 minutes ago | parent

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.