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[Update] New demo released, improved a few things and cleaned up the code. Check it out.[/Update]



I was laying in bed a couple nights ago, and suddenly got inspiration for a game that is a combination of the retro game Asteroids, the fun game Gradius and add an upgrade system to boot.

This is what I have so far:
- Unlimited Survival Mode
- persistent options
- persistent High Score table
- Fully customizable controls
- limited power-ups
- segmenting asteroids
- change "world" settings for fully customizable gameplay
- player system
- Enemy system
- upgrade system
- map editor
- level system
- better sound effects
- background music

Key:
Completed
Working on
Concept
Given up on

Right now I have a complete demo available. This is basically the current survival mode with options and custom key mapping capabilities. You can download this below.

Screen shots:




Sorry about not having any music in the current demo, but I haven't decided on what audio style I want this game to have yet.

If you wouldn't mind, it would be nice if you played it to post your FPS and computer components so I can see how this game runs on other systems. This has been compiled on Vista, and hasn't been tested on XP or 7 yet, so it would also be nice to know if it works on those.

C&C is encouraged.

EDIT: here's the youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-dJPuxgchY

Congrats! You get the 'Works-On-A-Windows-7-Home-Premium-32-bit-Edition-Computer-containing-the-worst-specs-in-history' award!


I got an average of 35 FPS ish on my Celeron D 3.3ghz, integrated 3 year old graphic processor (Radeon xpress 200 for Intel).

I found it quite difficult to shoot due to the slow firing rate. Then again, I've never played a Asteroids game where you had to shoot manually. Then again, I've never played an Asteroids game.

I love the collision bounces and slides and all that, but it took me a while to get used to the controls. I'm not saying you should change it, but I'm just pointing that out.

I say it has a pretty great potential. Good luck with it!

Well, after a great deal of sorting and work, I have managed to clean my code up a bunch so that it should run faster. I also added a few features:

- Medium speed Autofire when fire key/button is held down
- Asteroids now have a health/shield bar above them
- Friction and max speed can now be altered in the options menu
- Options menu now accessible from gameplay by hitting pause
- smoothed friction, giving a better sliding movement

up next is to add some enemies with a simple tracking AI.