Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

(spaceships.treybastian.com)

121 points | by zdw 4 days ago

10 comments

  • dgently7 2 hours ago
    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.
  • Founderarcstone 25 minutes ago
    Really awesome this makes me want to play old school games
  • fercircularbuf 3 hours ago
    Nice. This makes me want to play a number of games as the bad guy.
    • pmontra 3 minutes ago
      The Wizard of Yendor.
    • appplication 1 hour ago
      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.

    • dgently7 2 hours ago
      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 2 hours ago
      Mr. Don’t? “Centimpede”
  • Morromist 2 hours ago
    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.
  • jasonjmcghee 3 hours ago
    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 3 hours ago
      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 2 hours ago
        Around wave ten, I think the ships can teleport.
    • Brian_K_White 2 hours ago
      yes
  • astero1dz 1 hour ago
    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!)
    • xenophonf 45 minutes ago
      That was so much fun!
  • linsomniac 3 hours ago
    I did a "Asteroid as an FPS" a couple months ago, play it here: https://linsomniac.github.io/roidbelt/
    • keyle 2 hours ago
      The silly part is that you end up just looking at the radar and playing regular Asteroid anyway
    • BobbyTables2 2 hours ago
      That’s really cool! Neat cross of the old tank game with the wireframe graphics and asteroids!
      • vibrio 2 hours ago
        Batttlezone was the tank game.
    • natnatenathan 3 hours ago
      it's beautiful, well done!
  • jmspring 3 hours ago
    Nicely done. Took a minute to figure out.
  • andsoitis 3 hours ago
    Feature request: support LRUD.
  • senectus1 1 hour ago
    oh i really like this idea. very cool