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Asteroid fighters

By xandy

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness295
Innovation1303.81
Theme1363.83
Fun5453.06
Overall5553.21
Humor6792.15
Audio7692.27
Mood8492.65
Graphics9932.37

Comments

ramori 2014-08-26 17:34

Nice idea, matches the theme. Too bad there we're not many people playing when I tried it. Good job!

tbamberg 2014-08-26 19:25

Cute idea, but I could never connect to the server. Running on Chrome

thingostudios 2014-08-26 19:29

It's a very, very cool idea, but it needs a really good server to work, that doesn't exist.

zoneone2 2014-08-26 19:29

I really like the idea. With a bit more polish I could see this being a fun, intense local multiplayer game.

jackdegree 2014-08-26 19:32

The idea is really nice, even though I could not play in multiplayer.

vallar 2014-08-26 19:36

That is a VERY interesting game. I liked the concept very much. It was really fun playing it.

The only problem that I was lagging (or others were) and I couldn't really play for long. But the few minutes of play were worth it. Well done job and I like the minimalistic art :D.

xanjos 2014-08-26 19:43

Netcode needs quite a lot of polish (it's either very laggy or I seem to be playing by myself) but this is a nice take on Asteroids and the multiplayer aspect seems to fit the theme very well. A pretty interesting game overall.

doos 2014-08-26 19:46

Very cool idea.. Wish my ship was a bit faster to turn.. :)

xandy 2014-08-26 19:48

yeah sorry about the netcode. during development i was behind a vpn to another country so i couldn't do any real world testing :(

konrad-zegis 2014-08-26 21:01

Funny variation of classic asteroids :D

sorle 2014-08-27 00:17

Yeah nice to see those classics again in a new content!
Cool idea enjoyed it

luduspactum 2014-08-27 00:26

Clever and innovator. A good asteroids clone matching the theme. Good job

blurryroots 2014-08-27 01:41

Neat mechanics and an impressive network feature. Fun game.

teamrocketbear 2014-08-28 04:03

Big idea for a jam, I think I waited to long to get a test with anyone. But appreciate it.

How did you learn to make working netcode in such short time? Any tips?

szbeat 2014-08-28 13:18

Game has a cool concept, you should polish it a little and make a game out of it.

xandy 2014-08-28 13:20

@teamrocketbear i'm using lua-enet for transport and simply transfer all information 20times/sec. later i reduced the needed traffic by rounding everything down to only 2 decimal places. post jam version will use a binary serializerinstead of the text one i'm using now. netcode is in systems/network.lua. but it's pretty ugly.

acidave 2014-08-28 14:09

Great idea and solid mechanics and controls. Like the idea of an classic game adapted to the ld theme.

eemmbbeerr 2014-08-29 17:22

Nice idea, but I don't want to shoot myself. How do I go multiplayer?

kingbolonzo 2014-09-01 08:48

Nice work wish this was around when atari was Nice job realy fun i like the simple art style a little polish would make it stand out

andymar 2014-09-01 15:37

Wow. I hardly ever see any local multiplayer games on the LD, let alone online multiplayers. Congratulations for being the first, as well as managing to make a cute, fun game.

xandy 2014-09-01 15:46

thanks, i thought i'd give it a try as the core game mechanic was pretty easy to implement.

moi93101 2014-09-01 16:03

Really good concept, perfect with the theme, and it made with löve, so ... cool !

jahmaican 2014-09-01 16:11

I quite liked this one. Graphics could be better (I know that the original game wasn't too pretty, but at least the actual asteroids weren't squares!)

vividhelix 2014-09-01 16:44

Got a runtime error when I managed to hit my first asteroid. Other than that, great idea and take on the theme!

benjamin-soule 2014-09-01 17:24

Fun game even when playing alone. The firre=spawn idea seems very innovative to me. Gravity games need some inertia but I think that turnspeed inertia is not a good idea. Inertia in speed is more than enough to make the dodging difficult.

thecolorhacker 2014-09-01 22:17

Good game, I got 120 points. I like the concept, it adapted well to the theme and was fun to play. Perhaps, rotation was a little too loose. Nice work!

creative630 2014-09-02 21:05

Dang, cool idea. Really hard to control your ship though.

praetor57 2014-09-05 00:26

Great take on the theme!

Too bad no one else seemed to be playing :( Still fun by oneself though :)

nicepenguins 2014-09-05 13:30

Good idea ! Too bad there's no one on line and crash bugs.

zerkruemler 2014-09-07 18:44

Cool idea. But a little bit too hard for me since the controls are not fast enough. Unfortunately no other players where areound, but the idea of a multiplayer game is cool.
Greetings to the RZL