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141 points by zdw · 28 comments

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zargon

Fun for about 5 minutes but screeches to a halt when ships start to teleport. Only takes a few minutes to be able to get to wave 12 and then there's no progress after that.

dgently7

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.

fercircularbuf

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

  • thih9

    You likely know this but in case not: Dungeon Keeper series.

  • appplication

    Space invaders but you’re the invaders would be fun. And I have to assume it’s already been done.

    On a different note, Rampage was a great game where you’re the bad guy. I had a blast playing this as a kid.

  • pmontra

    The Wizard of Yendor.

    • fho

      Rogue Like Celebration is _now_. Great video coverage on YouTube

  • dgently7

    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

    Mr. Don’t? “Centimpede”

Morromist

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.

Founderarcstone

Really awesome this makes me want to play old school games

jasonjmcghee

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

    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

      Different ships that can survive and bounce on slower or glancing hits, shields, more maneuverable saucer ships. Wave fifteen the ships reload and fire really rapidly, decimated a crowded field in seconds.

    • baruz

      Around wave ten, I think the ships can teleport.

  • Brian_K_White

    yes

astero1dz

Here's another great interpretation of "reverse Asteroids" from the JS13K comp in 2015: https://js13kgames.com/games/behind-asteroids-the-dark-side (Hi greweb!)

linsomniac

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

jmspring

Nicely done. Took a minute to figure out.

andsoitis

Feature request: support LRUD.

senectus1

oh i really like this idea. very cool

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