Made as part of a  challenge to myself to create an arcade style game in a single day. 

You simply dodge the flying space debris.

Controls

A / D – Move

Space – Start

R – Restart

More information
Updated 7 days ago
Published 9 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorWardstone Studios
GenreAction
Made withGameMaker
Tags2D, Arcade, Casual, Incremental, Retro, Short

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fannyslam8 days ago(+1)

first score: 8872

  • at the start there were a lot of long periods of sitting still, until eventually the spawn rate increased i felt the need to dodge, but still only occassionally
  • the sound gets a little grating, perhaps adding some pitch variation could help?
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Yagich9 days ago(+1)

my best score is 9442.

the game design is honestly terrific. it's not as straightforward as it appears at first, so let me know if i found all of the techniques you've employed.

  1. some asteroids bias towards the player, their direction is not just purely random
  2. not sure about this one, but it *looks* like the spawn points of the asteroids can sometimes choose to be positioned at where it predicts the player is going, considering the direction and speed of the player and the direction and speed of the asteroid
  3. i really appreciate that the spawn rate has an upper bound instead of just going to infinity!

for being made in a day especially, the level of polish is also honestly great; the parallax and subtle player animation is top notch. i appreciate this game. my only critique is that the player and asteroids blend in with the background sometimes due to the 1-bit color scheme.

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Wardstone Studios9 days ago(+1)

Thank you, You’re too kind. I did try to implement the player tracking but I found the ramp up in spawn rate gave the same feel with the random incoming angle. One thing I did make use of was the small play space to make the game feel like its doing more in the background than it actually is.

I do plan on coming back to this one day, so I’ll keep in mind the color scheme feedback

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