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Asteroid Miner

By roka-josh and Thomu

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall5793.1137
Fun3153.3137
Innovation6192.7137
Theme5703.2636
Graphics6053.0037
Audio3013.2936
Humor4892.2027
Mood5243.0333

Comments

thomu 2017-07-31 20:01

I hope the music isnt too loud

marcenat 2017-07-31 22:02

The music isn't too loud, and is pretty cool by the way :) Nice work, the controls feel great.

vipbasil 2017-07-31 22:02

Hey i have the same main asteroids gameplay ^), I enjoyed a lot your game.

dragonzbw 2017-07-31 22:08

The music isn't too loud :) Quite good, feels smooth. The only real issue I had was that the menus didn't fit properly on my screen. The sides were cut off.

lcmw-spud 2017-07-31 22:10

Really brought me back to asteroids, at first I was wasting all my energy on the stars and before I knew I was at a score of $500,000.

roka-josh 2017-07-31 22:11

@dragonzbw, thanks for your feedback, it was an issue with the ui, as I set it to only scale to 16:9 monitors, so sorry about that. Thanks for the kind words though!

roka-josh 2017-07-31 22:12

@lcmw-spud Glad to see we hit the nostalgia of asteroids, it was a heavy inspiration, thanks for your comment and thanks for checking out our game.

bocodillo 2017-08-01 00:28

Great arcade style space shooter. Really liked the music (nice and catchy) and the movement mechanics were beautifully smooth.

roka-josh 2017-08-01 00:32

@bocodillo Thank you so much for those kind words, it means a lot and we're glad you enjoyed our game!

emery 2017-08-01 09:30

This was a really fun and interesting game. the mechanics were good, controls were good, and i really liked the audio. Good Job

alexandr-androiddev 2017-08-01 11:48

yeah, crossplatform win and mac. but wait, where is linux version? :'(

roka-josh 2017-08-01 12:45

@emery Thank you so much for your kind words and for testing out our game!

brendan-engelman 2017-08-01 17:18

This was a very fun game! The gameplay was simple but addictive, the ship movement was very smooth, and the graphics and audio fit the theme and mood really well.

roka-josh 2017-08-01 17:39

@brendan-engelman Thanks very much for playing the game and leaving feedback, I'm glad you liked it!

cooltrain 2017-08-01 18:16

I enjoyed it, fun little game with a good choice in music, sounds effects are on point as well. Controls also fitted well. Good job :P

bewelge 2017-08-01 23:58

Very nice little game :) Definitely reminded me of asteroids but the gathering added a nice mechanic. Loved the sound too!

evil-as-shit 2017-08-02 02:53

Would have been nice to be able to charge up your ship a bit.

roka-josh 2017-08-02 11:22

@evil-as-shit may I ask in what sense? As you can get power packs to increase you power.

roka-josh 2017-08-02 11:22

@bewelge Thanks so much for you kind words, it means a lot!

roka-josh 2017-08-02 11:23

@cooltrain Thank you for playing the game and leaving feedback!

jorbits 2017-08-02 11:26

The controlls are very easy and the graphics are simple. The music fits the game and it was not to difficult at the beginning. Good job.

roka-josh 2017-08-02 12:24

@jorbits thank you for playing a rating our game!

lavwa 2017-08-18 14:52

Nice game !! Good job with the parallax effect. Also, great idea to destroy the bonus/minerals if we shoot on them, it makes us play more carefully. The music fits the gameplay, seriously, for a LD game, it's perfectly done. I know by experience (LD38 :P) that it's not easy to create that kind of game during a jam. Amazing job !

shess 2017-08-19 11:41

Nice game, fluid controls and great music. I accidentally destroyed precious minerals on several occasions, but that's really interesting gameplay element, so no objections. Good job!

ddsfloko 2017-08-19 15:21

Fun game. The controls work very well, and the art of the asteroid, ships and itens are adorable . Nice job.

natrium729 2017-08-19 21:54

The controls were very simple but they felt great and easy to grasp. The game is a bit simplistic and repetitive, but it's OK.

I also liked the fact that you can destroy the collectibles. It keeps the player from firing like crazy and forces them to be more strategic.

nufflee 2017-08-21 14:43

Looks good!

frogcheese 2017-08-21 15:57

This is a pretty interesting addition to the old asteroids. The graphics were nice and clean, and the music was good and overall a nice fit. I think a natural progression for this game would be to have some form of in-game store where you can exchange your currency for upgrades. That might be a good idea if you choose to continue developing this.

I did have a couple of issues with the game though: the first is the main menu being cut off on my MacBook, regardless of which resolution I picked. I saw someone else had the same problem. The game itself was playable anyway, so in the end it wasn't a big deal. The second is the speed of enemy ships. They come at you so fast that there's basically no chance to react, track them and shoot them down, which feels a bit unfair.

Other than that, really great job!

roka-josh 2017-08-21 20:39

@frogcheese Thanks for playing our game, I'm glad you liked it! We are continuing to make this game afterwards, and you can follow us on twitter to see developments. Upgrades is something we have planned, and the UI is a noted bug which is already being worked on. Thanks very much!

yuigoto 2017-08-21 21:46

Feels like a mix between Asteroids and Super Stardust here! :P The game looks pretty nice and the sounds do fit the style you've chosen here, but I think some more balancing, specially on how the game advances would be nice.

Also, mouse controls for this kinda don't fit well (for me). Having a twin-stick-like controller would be better here. And, on the main menu, when you click on Help, it would be nice to have an overlay, indicating that you can't click on some buttons, as all buttons have the same colour.

Nice job, overall! ;)

blueman 2017-08-22 01:55

This felt really nice to play. It's actually fairly similar to my game :grin:. The music and sound effects were great, the graphics looked nice, and it plays well. Good job!