Asteroids 4K

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#1

Getting a head start on the 4K contest. This is Asteroids in 4K. It is stil not 100% complete, but is playable.

http://69.198.177.99/asteroids.jnlp

Anyway, please post any comments.

Thanks.

EDIT: For some reason, you have to click inside the frame to get the keys to work.

#2

Works just fine. The turn speed could be a bit higher.

If you end up with some leftover bytes you could add things like a bonus for finishing the level (like level*25+100) or an upcounting score (like having two score vars… one is for display and the other is the real one… each iteration you check if real>shown and if so shown+=Math.sqrt(real)) or other small things like that :wink:

#3

I think the acceleration is too powerful. I ended up never moving if I didn’t have to, because if I ever moved, I would be out of control until I died. Once I died at the edge of the screen, and when I respawned I was still at the edge of the screen. I wanted to move to the middle so I could better observe what was coming at me from all sides, but couldn’t because I moved way too fast and couldn’t control it :frowning:

#4

Thanks for the comments guys. I fixed the rotation speed and acceleration. Should be a little better now. I still have to make the alien ship shoot and try to see if I can squeeze in some sound.

OFFTOPIC:

@oNyx I have friend from Taiwan who knows a little Japanese and she says that your sig(変態馬鹿) is a bad word. Is this true? Just curious.

#5

Yes it is. Its “hentai baka”, which you could roughly translate as “perverted idiot”.

Its just there because I like the sound of it. Heh. And it reminds me to learn japanese :wink:

#6

Might try and get this topic moved into the contests forums…

Kev

#7

I’d already translated it and had decided to keep quiet :slight_smile:

…and the asteroids. It feels much as I remember - Ah happiness. :slight_smile:

/Edit: I died and rematerialised back on the asteroid and died again. I believe the real asteroids waited until there was a clear spot before reappearing.

Alan :slight_smile:

#8

nice! only one complain, its barely controllable, it turns and accelerates way too fast.

#9

That’s curious. I thought it was about right on this 2.4GHz Pentium IV Windows machine.

#10

maybe that’s the point i’m running it on a linux box

#11

Why does it load up a game called Swarm 4k for me?

#12

It is set up to wait. Although if one is close but not touching where you will appear, then you will appear right beside it.

I don’t lock the framerate, so I thought that might be a problem. I will have to lock it if I have the room.

I use the Swarm jnlp as a base. Forgot to remove one reference. Will fix that when I get home.

Thanks guys. A new, more complete version will be up tonight.

#13

It’s really slow on my 866 p3…

#14

Cool. I had a similar idea for last years contest. Check out my Trek4k an asteroids based game at
http://elmkom.tripod.com/

#15

Look’s good.

Once I lock the framerate, it should go faster.

#16

Cool, but I want it to turn faster so I can hide the fact that I suck :slight_smile:

#17

I uploaded a framerate locked version. It’s a little jumpy, but should be playable on slower machines. Might go for time based movement if it doesn’t take a lot of space.

nonnus29, could you try again and let me know if it works.

Thanks.

#18

It now goes really fast here. Playable, but a touch fast :slight_smile:

#19

ditto

#20

Yep, just a little too fast. And when you reach a new level doesn’t the origional asteroids start you in the center? Plus all the asteroids look a bit pac-man-ish ;D . Nice asteroids clone though.