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.
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.
It's especially bad that they can hide behind the UI sometimes...
I preferred it without colour, half of the fun is finding the ships, like a where's wally/waldo
Second that. Colors is a requirement.
Yet I loved the concept.
May 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.
Nice. This makes me want to play a number of games as the bad guy.
Space invaders but you’re the invaders would be fun. And I have to assume it’s already been done.<p>On a different note, Rampage was a great game where you’re the bad guy. I had a blast playing this as a kid.
I 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).
Yes, like Destroy All Humans, Alien Hominid... Not arcades, though.
In board games there's "kill doctor lucky" which is reverse cluedo/clue.
CARRION - a reverse horror game<p><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/</a>
Sim City: you're the disasters.
You likely know this but in case not: Dungeon Keeper series.
I 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.<p><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/</a><p>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.<p><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/285840/Enemy_Mind/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/app/285840/Enemy_Mind/</a><p>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.
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<p>donkey kong, play as donkey and try to time barrel throws to hit mario<p>galaga, play as the fleet, control left right of the whole fleet and have the 3-4 different "attacks" you could send out.
The Wizard of Yendor.
Mr. Don’t?
“Centimpede”
<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@harvis/asteroids" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/@harvis/asteroids</a><p>for those who want to have easter egg on their pet projects with konami cheat code
I made a planet-defending game back in 2018. Didn't realize that it actually mimicks Asteroid<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.ivanludvig.starstorm">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.ivanludvig....</a>
Since not all asteroids are pulled to the gravity simultaneously, some kind of background starfield could make it clearer that the camera/viewport is moving.
So 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.
Very fun!
I sucks playing asteroids, here I am an Ace!
game is sideways on my portrait monitor!
Neat game! I managed to get to level 11 but got beat up.<p>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.<p><a href="https://kenamick.itch.io/spaceghost-cga" rel="nofollow">https://kenamick.itch.io/spaceghost-cga</a>
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.
The game is pretty confusing i still do not understand how to play this the right way a guide there would make it good.
The controls/rules are pretty unclear. This thing could use a controls/rules option.
Oh this is a fun game! Just keep moving the asteroids non-stop, that way you can catch them when they spawn
Fun twist on the game!<p>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.<p>Is there difficulty ramp later on?
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.
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.
Around wave ten, I think the ships can teleport.
yes
Here's another great interpretation of "reverse Asteroids" from the JS13K comp in 2015: <a href="https://js13kgames.com/games/behind-asteroids-the-dark-side" rel="nofollow">https://js13kgames.com/games/behind-asteroids-the-dark-side</a> (Hi greweb!)
Great 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.
I did a "Asteroid as an FPS" a couple months ago, play it here: <a href="https://linsomniac.github.io/roidbelt/" rel="nofollow">https://linsomniac.github.io/roidbelt/</a>
The silly part is that you end up just looking at the radar and playing regular Asteroid anyway
That’s really cool! Neat cross of the old tank game with the wireframe graphics and asteroids!
it's beautiful, well done!
Really awesome this makes me want to play old school games
Nicely done. Took a minute to figure out.
Feature request: support LRUD.
oh i really like this idea. very cool