Vortex by bitnight
This little arcade game is my submission to the Ludum Dare 50.

Controls: WASD/Arrows Keys to control your spaceship.
Have fun and don't forget to submit your score on the leaderboard 😄!

| Link | https://davidjs.itch.io/vortex |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/vortex |
Ratings
| Overall | 512th | 3.658⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 529th | 3.526⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 662th | 3.342⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 778th | 3.579⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 686th | 3.658⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1016th | 2.344⭐ | 18🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 396th | 3.763⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 9🗨️ |

P.s. What method did you use for the leaderboard? It updated and loaded instantly! Was really impressive :)
For the leaderboard I wrote a minimal REST-API Backend with express.js (basically just a post and get route) and hosted it on Heroku. The values are then stored on cloud.mongodb.com.
Although you can easily escape the asteroid zone the game forces you to stay in range to gain points making a logical risk-reward factor.
Great entry
I would have liked there to be more of a parallax effect on the background, to give the illusion that you are actually moving. When no asteroids are on the screen, is looks a bit weird.
When I got back to read the comments here, I saw that others too had discovered the exploit, where you simply fly far far away from the starting point and can thus survive apparently forever. Had to fly backwards to find an asteroid to die on. I didn't submit my exploited score and am satisfied with my score from my first try :smile: Thanks for the game!

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