aRTSeroids

Sat, 07/21/2012 - 18:08 — kirkjerk

Game File:

aRTSeroids.zip

Game link:

http://kirkjerk.com/java/artseroids/

Asteroids meets an RTS! Draw bounding boxes with the mouse to select a bunch, then click to send them to points on the screen and have them fight the asteroids.

's' adds new ships when your reserves run low.

'r' resets the game. Kind of.

You might just want to press s a lot and have fun with the pretty patterns.

Event Created For:

Klik of the Month Klub #61

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Comments

Sat, 07/21/2012 - 21:25 — NickScalzi

this is a really neat idea

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Sun, 07/22/2012 - 03:20 — kirkjerk

Yeah- I don't know what kind

Yeah- I don't know what kind of tuning it would take to get a bit more playable

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Sat, 07/21/2012 - 21:29 — Danni

The ships seem to enjoy

The ships seem to enjoy ignoring my orders and instead killing themselves by ramming into the asteroids. I like the idea but the ships really shouldn't be acting on their own accord.

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Sun, 07/22/2012 - 03:28 — kirkjerk

So they aren't willfully

So they aren't willfully ignoring orders- they are just a bit dumb and contstantly thrusting. They fly to where you tell them., but get distractedly if there is an asteroid in the area.

Hmm come to think off it- I was playing this Zombie RTS on iOS. - I remember all the challenge was that you could only target locations for the zombies to shambles to and if the human wandered or ran off you had to keep retargetting.... but the humans were slower to kill than asteroids

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Sun, 07/22/2012 - 08:34 — kirkjerk

UPDATED!

So I made 2 changes:
1. the ships' bullets start at the same speed as the ship (plus a little bit more), some of the crashing was just a fast moving ship outrunning its own bullets
2. i made the ships a little smarter about the wrap of the universe... I think I put in a little gimmick so if they are heading to a target on the right side of the screen and they overfly and wrap to the left, they know that it's faster to turn around and go back to the left, even though the target is to the right of them, technically.