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Asteroids War

By soul

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme1783.53
Audio2173.07
Innovation2782.94
Fun2982.82
Overall3103.00
Graphics4102.71
Coolness174428

Comments

kingsman142 2013-04-30 00:04

I have no friends to play with, so I couldn't rate it.

jwolf 2013-04-30 01:40

I also don't have anyone to play with at the moment...but not satisfied with that, I tried opening two sessions and providing my IP address to both...it connected, but the green player was rather buggy (all planets were off-screen to the top-left, probably where the Origin is; scores didn't update properly; was still able to shoot the purple player, though. Purple player seemed to be fully functional).

I'm not really sure if I should be rating this one, but I was able to get it to run with this workaround. It looks like it would be fun with another player, and I like the music. You really need some kind of match-making service, though, or some people to provide their IP addresses.

soul 2013-04-30 03:27

1. The planets for the green player were off the screen. This is a syncing problem that should be fixed if you restart the session. Although this is my mistake and I need to fix that.
2. The purple player didn't update even when he get shot is I guess because the player is still in his spawning point, so actually you killed him but he spawned in the same place, so it looks like he is not updating correctly. Try to move the purple player.

I know I really need to increase the number of players to 4 and make a match making service. It would be really cool but I was running out of time.

Anyways thanks for the comments :)

trench 2013-04-30 08:36

Looks pretty good from the screenshots but I can't play it since it has no single player!

netmute 2013-05-06 11:40

I'm on a Mac. Sorry :(

andrewtwest 2013-05-07 04:38

I also have nobody available to play this with and did not rate it. :(

dremelofdeath 2013-05-07 08:43

No single player. :( A public server would have really, really helped here.

harsayhd 2013-05-07 12:39

Played one one computer with two clients and it's a nice idea but it's very hard to land on planet. Public server will be the best for this game.

yorwba 2013-05-07 14:36

Nice mix of Moonlander and Asteroids, but i have several suggestions:
* Be less strict about what is a correct landing. The controls make it hard enough.
* Change the view so that the ship is always pointing into the same direction. This would make it easier to find out how to rotate so that the thrust will push the ship towards a planet.
* Do not place planets out of bounds, it is annoying to get moved to the other side because of its gravity.
* Do not wrap around space, it is senseless to have the players start in different corners when they can just turn around to battle.
* Let the ship respawn on a random planet of the player instead of the void.

threef 2013-05-07 14:36

Great game! Physics and Music are good. Played only on 127.0.0.1 with myself, but I can imagine playing it with someone... or maybe someone would like to play with me? Tweet me! :D

donan 2013-05-08 20:34

Good game :D. Too bad it didnt have AI and had to play it by lan with myself. But it looks fun with other people.