Shoot Dem Asteroids by Darkcoder

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made by Darkcoder for LD23 (COMPO)
Controls:

- WASD to move
- Space to shoot


Tips:

- Your ship's gun will overheat, so try to fire in bursts.
- It's easier to defend Earth if you stay near it
- The red arrows around you ship point to asteroids

Note: There is no way to win this game, you just shoot asteroids until you die :)

Ratings

Coolness 48% 651
Overall 2.88 483
Audio 2.41 460
Fun 2.59 560
Graphics 3.11 319
Humor 2.00 539
Innovation 2.30 715
Mood 2.46 577
Theme 2.85 524

Feedback

SidetrackGames
23. Apr 2012 · 05:06 UTC
Clunky controls, but apart from that, i like it :)
cirolve
23. Apr 2012 · 05:07 UTC
well that certainly was a fun little game :p A bit hard to control, but fun none the less.
RandomOutput
23. Apr 2012 · 05:33 UTC
I really enjoy controls like this! Getting the hang of them is a lot if fun. Like that I'm fighting against gravity all the time. Only lasted 92 seconds, but it was a fun 92 seconds!
DaveDobson
23. Apr 2012 · 05:38 UTC
Very hard to control the ship - made it a little frustrating. Otherwise, quite fun, and it looks very nice. More of a plot would help. I liked the shrinking and warping planet.
Lacutis
23. Apr 2012 · 17:05 UTC
I like classic arcade games, and it was fun. Saying that though the controls were really difficult. Also, at one point an asteroid pinned me against the planet and I couldnt move. Still, a fun game!

Also, having some kind of end goal, like X asteroids destroyed would have been nice. Maybe, asteroids drop minerals and after X minerals you get a defense outpost at one corner of the planet. Once you get four of them the planet is safe.
smvilar
23. Apr 2012 · 20:54 UTC
Really hard to master the controls.
invaderJim
24. Apr 2012 · 04:33 UTC
I agree with everyone else that the controls take some getting used to, but the graphics and camera movement are really nice! Also, I would have liked to have been able to destroy the planet myself.

And I think the world could have been a little bigger.
zenasprime
24. Apr 2012 · 17:07 UTC
Overall an interesting design. It needed a bit more game testing. It was really difficult to control the ship and navigate around your little world.
AirRider3
26. Apr 2012 · 16:28 UTC
Very fun! It was challenging! Great graffics, I really like them!

Maybe a nice background music could be a thing to add.
Ben
26. Apr 2012 · 22:12 UTC
Very nicely made, especially liked the graphics. My only thing was I think that you shouldn't overheat as quickly. Either way though, very good job!
namuol
27. Apr 2012 · 03:41 UTC
Controls are realistic which is cool, but it's frustrating because it's so damn hard to destroy the asteroids. My suggestion would be to make them one-shot-kill. I don't mind drunken-rocket-flying around space as long as I can do it for more than 2 minutes at a time. ;)

Nice SFX/GFX and controls, though!
spooks
30. Apr 2012 · 14:35 UTC
Great premise, sound and graphics, just which the controls were a little tighter, other than that though, well done!
tcstyle
04. May 2012 · 20:04 UTC
I like the basic idea, the physics work, the graphics are good and the sounds fit. But the controls make it really unplayable to me.
robcozzens
08. May 2012 · 06:57 UTC
Cool graphics and audio. But it's even harder to control than the original asteroids.
Mago
10. May 2012 · 06:38 UTC
Hard to control the ship besides that everything is OK. My high score 221
voxel
12. May 2012 · 22:09 UTC
I actually really liked the controls too. Was half the fun of the game