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Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
- andsoitis 18d agoFeature request: support LRUD.
- fercircularbuf 18d agoNice. This makes me want to play a number of games as the bad guy.
- dgently7 18d agoagree 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.
- razorbeamz 17d agoNintendo and Namco made a multiplayer Pac-Man for GameCube where three players play as ghosts on Game Boy Advances and can see the whole map, while one player plays as Pac-Man with a limited view.
- itomato 18d agoMr. Don’t? “Centimpede”
- appplication 17d agoSpace 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.
- invader 17d agoYes, like Destroy All Humans, Alien Hominid... Not arcades, though.
- Steve16384 17d agoI created a reverse Space Invaders a few months ago, but I struggled to get it to be a fun game as you just move left and right avoiding the players bullets. (I'd post a gif, but it looks exactly like Space Invaders to watch).
- pmontra 17d agoThe Wizard of Yendor.
- fho 17d agoRogue Like Celebration is _now_. Great video coverage on YouTube
- thih9 17d agoYou likely know this but in case not: Dungeon Keeper series.
- dguest 17d agoSim City: you're the disasters.
- dguest 17d agoSim City was already a "you are the bad guys" game! The creator of Sim City was working on a game called Raid on Bungeling Bay" [1] where your job was to bomb a fully functional civilization into the stone age. He had so much fun developing the civilization that he decided to make a game of it. So maybe we just need a "Raid on Bungling Bay Redux: Massacre of The Sims". [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Bungeling_Bay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Bungeling_Bay
- philipallstar 17d ago> Creative Computing in 1984 said that the game "push[es] the animation capabilities of the Commodore 64 to their very limits". The magazine concluded that it would become "one of the all-time great computer games". Gaming journalism didn't only recently become ridiculous, it turns out.
- dguest 17d agoThere's still plenty of time for a successor!
- egypturnash 17d agoSmooth full-screen scrolling on the c64 was hard. In the years since 1984 people discovered ways to use unintended behavior in the c64's video chips to move a lot more of the screen around seamlessly, but ROBB's fast omnidirectional scrolling was pretty slick for a game from the same year the c64 came out. Raid Over Bungelling Bay grew into Sim City, which had remakes over two decades and spawned an entire genre of "city builders", I think there is indeed an argument that it became an "all-time great".
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- fainpul 17d agoCARRION - a reverse horror game https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/
- RobotToaster 17d agoDRM free (and cheaper) on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/carrion https://www.gog.com/en/game/carrion
- latexr 17d agoI second (from another comment) the suggestion for CARRION. Think of it like those 80’s movies where an amorphous creature is captured/created and stuck in a lab. You play as the creature, trying to get out. https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/ Also, not exactly playing as the bad guy but Enemy Mind is a fun tangential concept where instead of having your own ammo and life, you’re constantly possessing enemy ships and using their resources, before discarding them for the next one. https://store.steampowered.com/app/285840/Enemy_Mind/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/285840/Enemy_Mind/ Coincidentally it’s now with 60% discount and it’s worth it at that price. If I recall (it’s been many years since I played it) the game was short and didn’t have a lot going for it outside the gimmick.
- RobotToaster 17d agoIn board games there's "kill doctor lucky" which is reverse cluedo/clue.
- doctorhandshake 17d agoCrawl is a great one. Rouguelike where when you die you inhabit the dungeon.
- jmspring 18d agoNicely done. Took a minute to figure out.
- jasonjmcghee 18d agoFun 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 18d agoThe 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.
- Brian_K_White 18d agoyes
- linsomniac 18d agoI did a "Asteroid as an FPS" a couple months ago, play it here: https://linsomniac.github.io/roidbelt/ https://linsomniac.github.io/roidbelt/
- natnatenathan 18d agoit's beautiful, well done!
- linsomniac 17d agoThanks!
- BobbyTables2 18d agoThat’s really cool! Neat cross of the old tank game with the wireframe graphics and asteroids!
- vibrio 18d agoBatttlezone was the tank game.
- senectus1 18d agoman, I loved that game.
- linsomniac 17d agoI also did that one: https://linsomniac.github.io/tankzone/ https://linsomniac.github.io/tankzone/
- keyle 18d agoThe silly part is that you end up just looking at the radar and playing regular Asteroid anyway
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- dgently7 18d agounlike 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.
- blueaquilae 17d agoSecond that. Colors is a requirement. Yet I loved the concept.
- SillyUsername 17d agoI preferred it without colour, half of the fun is finding the ships, like a where's wally/waldo
- throwawayffffas 17d agoAt least one of the ships is shaped very close to the smallest asteroids making it very hard to track.
- Sniffnoy 17d agoIt's especially bad that they can hide behind the UI sometimes...
- Morromist 18d agoIts 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.
- senectus1 17d agooh i really like this idea. very cool
- astero1dz 17d agoHere's another great interpretation of "reverse Asteroids" from the JS13K comp in 2015: https://js13kgames.com/games/behind-asteroids-the-dark-side https://js13kgames.com/games/behind-asteroids-the-dark-side (Hi greweb!)
- xenophonf 17d agoThat was so much fun!
- Founderarcstone 17d agoReally awesome this makes me want to play old school games
- zargon 17d agoFun 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.
- xingped 17d agoYeah, the teleporting was an exceedingly annoying and un-fun mechanic. In games, players don't like when something happens without warning and are unable to react to it. This is why we have telegraphing. Dev, if you want to keep the mechanic, give it a charge up time and an indicator of the impending direction of a warp. Otherwise, funny idea for a game.
- xbar 17d agoI agree that the idea that some number of teleporting ships scales past the ability to bring enough chaotic asteroids to bear on them seems like a design problem. For me, that was six ships on wave 14. The field is rapidly emptied of threats.
- dimond 17d agoGreat Game! I think we'd all have an easier time with color added, which is why this game is challenging in a good way. Side-note: I beat 9th place globally! Let's go.
- tommica 17d agoOh this is a fun game! Just keep moving the asteroids non-stop, that way you can catch them when they spawn
- p2detar 17d agoNeat game! I managed to get to level 11 but got beat up. There can be a set of really cool things one can do with Asteroids. Some years ago I made a game which is a mix of Asteroids+Bomberman+Pacman. https://kenamick.itch.io/spaceghost-cga https://kenamick.itch.io/spaceghost-cga
- Sniffnoy 17d agoThe controls/rules are pretty unclear. This thing could use a controls/rules option.
- Vishal_Max 17d agoThe game is pretty confusing i still do not understand how to play this the right way a guide there would make it good.
- Sniffnoy 17d agoSo I got a really high score before I signed in, only signed in afterwards, and now, even though my high score displays on the "best wave" display for me, it's nowhere on the global high score board. I'm just going to have to, like, get it again somehow?? That's annoying.
- ricardobeat 17d agoMay I suggest removing/rephrashing the "you are not the ship" subtitle. It's obvious AI "this button is not red" phrasing that cheapens it a bit.
- vtemp009 17d ago"Are you not Asleep?" is the one question AI cannot answer
- kridsdale1 17d agoI disagree. The subtitle was half the fun for me.
- ricardobeat 17d agoAnd this is why we'll have to live with AI slop for the next decade
- IvanLudvig 17d agoI made a planet-defending game back in 2018. Didn't realize that it actually mimicks Asteroid https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.ivanludvig.starstorm https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.ivanludvig....
- esperent 17d agoOne of the most frustrating things about mobile gaming is that you can't just release a game, you have to commit to keeping it updated for the rest of your life or else accept that in 2-3 years nobody will be able to play it.
- putna 17d agohttps://www.npmjs.com/package/@harvis/asteroids https://www.npmjs.com/package/@harvis/asteroids for those who want to have easter egg on their pet projects with konami cheat code
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- nnevatie 17d agoSince not all asteroids are pulled to the gravity simultaneously, some kind of background starfield could make it clearer that the camera/viewport is moving.
- daitangio 17d agoVery fun! I sucks playing asteroids, here I am an Ace!
- RugnirViking 17d agogame is sideways on my portrait monitor!
- pentacrypt 17d agoHad an actual fun for about 5 minutes, thank you! Good casual game!
- lacoolj 17d agonow go make "Bowser: Kidnap the Princess" Thanks!
- burnt-resistor 17d agoNeat. Got to level 10 before there were too many ships firing and teleporting.
- pjmlp 15d agoKind of fun.