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Asteroid Miner by Roka Josh

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made by Roka Josh for LD 39 (JAM)

A game about blasting open asteroids with a laser, in order to get the gems inside to become the richest person in the galaxy! Watch out however, as pesky space pirates have heard of your wealth and are out to stop you in your tracks. Utilise Power Packs and Shield Power Ups from some asteroids in order to gain an advantage and become the wealthiest of all! This is our second jam ever, and it was a really good theme to make a game around!

Download

  • Download it here: https://rokajosh.itch.io/asteroid-miner

Controls

  • Left Mouse Button to fly towards the cursor
  • Right Mouse Button to shoot towards the cursor

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Credit

  • RokaJosh: Programming & Art
  • Thomu: Music & Sound Effects

Links

  • Our Company Website: http://www.jagtekgames.co.uk/
  • Our Company Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaGTeK_Games
  • RokaJosh Twitter: https://twitter.com/RokaJosh
  • Thomu Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thomuofficial

Tools

  • Unity 2017.1
  • Photoshop CC
  • Ableton 9.5
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/asteroid-miner

Ratings

Overall 579th 3.114⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Fun 315th 3.314⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 619th 2.714⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Theme 570th 3.265⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 605th 3⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Audio 301th 3.294⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Humor 489th 2.2⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 524th 3.032⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Given 42🗳️ 24🗨️

Feedback

Thomu
31. Jul 2017 · 20:01 UTC
I hope the music isnt too loud
Marcenat
31. Jul 2017 · 22:02 UTC
The music isn't too loud, and is pretty cool by the way :)
Nice work, the controls feel great.
vipbasil
31. Jul 2017 · 22:02 UTC
Hey i have the same main asteroids gameplay ^), I enjoyed a lot your game.
DragonZBW
31. Jul 2017 · 22:08 UTC
The music isn't too loud :) Quite good, feels smooth. The only real issue I had was that the menus didn't fit properly on my screen. The sides were cut off.
lcmw-spud
31. Jul 2017 · 22:10 UTC
Really brought me back to asteroids, at first I was wasting all my energy on the stars and before I knew I was at a score of $500,000.
🎤 Roka Josh
31. Jul 2017 · 22:11 UTC
@dragonzbw, thanks for your feedback, it was an issue with the ui, as I set it to only scale to 16:9 monitors, so sorry about that. Thanks for the kind words though!
🎤 Roka Josh
31. Jul 2017 · 22:12 UTC
@lcmw-spud Glad to see we hit the nostalgia of asteroids, it was a heavy inspiration, thanks for your comment and thanks for checking out our game.
Bocodillo
01. Aug 2017 · 00:28 UTC
Great arcade style space shooter. Really liked the music (nice and catchy) and the movement mechanics were beautifully smooth.
🎤 Roka Josh
01. Aug 2017 · 00:32 UTC
@bocodillo Thank you so much for those kind words, it means a lot and we're glad you enjoyed our game!
Emery
01. Aug 2017 · 09:30 UTC
This was a really fun and interesting game. the mechanics were good, controls were good, and i really liked the audio. Good Job
Alexandr AndroidDev
01. Aug 2017 · 11:48 UTC
yeah, crossplatform win and mac. but wait, where is linux version? :'(
🎤 Roka Josh
01. Aug 2017 · 12:45 UTC
@emery Thank you so much for your kind words and for testing out our game!
Brendan Engelman
01. Aug 2017 · 17:18 UTC
This was a very fun game! The gameplay was simple but addictive, the ship movement was very smooth, and the graphics and audio fit the theme and mood really well.
🎤 Roka Josh
01. Aug 2017 · 17:39 UTC
@brendan-engelman Thanks very much for playing the game and leaving feedback, I'm glad you liked it!
Cooltrain
01. Aug 2017 · 18:16 UTC
I enjoyed it, fun little game with a good choice in music, sounds effects are on point as well. Controls also fitted well. Good job :P
Bewelge
01. Aug 2017 · 23:58 UTC
Very nice little game :) Definitely reminded me of asteroids but the gathering added a nice mechanic. Loved the sound too!
Evil_As_Shit
02. Aug 2017 · 02:53 UTC
Would have been nice to be able to charge up your ship a bit.
🎤 Roka Josh
02. Aug 2017 · 11:22 UTC
@evil-as-shit may I ask in what sense? As you can get power packs to increase you power.
🎤 Roka Josh
02. Aug 2017 · 11:22 UTC
@bewelge Thanks so much for you kind words, it means a lot!
🎤 Roka Josh
02. Aug 2017 · 11:23 UTC
@cooltrain Thank you for playing the game and leaving feedback!
JOrbits
02. Aug 2017 · 11:26 UTC
The controlls are very easy and the graphics are simple. The music fits the game and it was not to difficult at the beginning. Good job.
🎤 Roka Josh
02. Aug 2017 · 12:24 UTC
@jorbits thank you for playing a rating our game!
lavwa
18. Aug 2017 · 14:52 UTC
Nice game !! Good job with the parallax effect. Also, great idea to destroy the bonus/minerals if we shoot on them, it makes us play more carefully. The music fits the gameplay, seriously, for a LD game, it's perfectly done. I know by experience (LD38 :P) that it's not easy to create that kind of game during a jam. Amazing job !
Shess
19. Aug 2017 · 11:41 UTC
Nice game, fluid controls and great music. I accidentally destroyed precious minerals on several occasions, but that's really interesting gameplay element, so no objections. Good job!
DDSFloko
19. Aug 2017 · 15:21 UTC
Fun game. The controls work very well, and the art of the asteroid, ships and itens are adorable . Nice job.
Natrium729
19. Aug 2017 · 21:54 UTC
The controls were very simple but they felt great and easy to grasp. The game is a bit simplistic and repetitive, but it's OK.

I also liked the fact that you can destroy the collectibles. It keeps the player from firing like crazy and forces them to be more strategic.
Nufflee
21. Aug 2017 · 14:43 UTC
Looks good!
frogcheese
21. Aug 2017 · 15:57 UTC
This is a pretty interesting addition to the old asteroids. The graphics were nice and clean, and the music was good and overall a nice fit. I think a natural progression for this game would be to have some form of in-game store where you can exchange your currency for upgrades. That might be a good idea if you choose to continue developing this.

I did have a couple of issues with the game though: the first is the main menu being cut off on my MacBook, regardless of which resolution I picked. I saw someone else had the same problem. The game itself was playable anyway, so in the end it wasn't a big deal. The second is the speed of enemy ships. They come at you so fast that there's basically no chance to react, track them and shoot them down, which feels a bit unfair.

Other than that, really great job!
🎤 Roka Josh
21. Aug 2017 · 20:39 UTC
@frogcheese Thanks for playing our game, I'm glad you liked it! We are continuing to make this game afterwards, and you can follow us on twitter to see developments. Upgrades is something we have planned, and the UI is a noted bug which is already being worked on. Thanks very much!
yuigoto
21. Aug 2017 · 21:46 UTC
Feels like a mix between Asteroids and Super Stardust here! :P The game looks pretty nice and the sounds do fit the style you've chosen here, but I think some more balancing, specially on how the game advances would be nice.

Also, mouse controls for this kinda don't fit well (for me). Having a twin-stick-like controller would be better here. And, on the main menu, when you click on Help, it would be nice to have an overlay, indicating that you can't click on some buttons, as all buttons have the same colour.

Nice job, overall! ;)
Blueman
22. Aug 2017 · 01:55 UTC
This felt really nice to play. It's actually fairly similar to my game :grin:. The music and sound effects were great, the graphics looked nice, and it plays well. Good job!