Asteroids+Deluxe

[Shockman]

Asteroids + Deluxe

The culmination of my Asteroids work.

Play Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, or Asteroids + Deluxe.

Asteroids
- Asteroids bezel and backdrop
- White
- Asteroids shaped ship
- Multi shaped asteroids do not rotate
- Hyper Jump
- Simi-Auto gun
- Ship starts pointed right, and respawns in rotation when destroyed

Asteroids Deluxe
- Asteroids Deluxe bezel and backdrop
- Cyan
- Asteroids Deluxe shaped ship
- Singular shaped asteroids rotate
- Shields
- Mothership and swarmers
- Ship has same top speed but accelerates faster and has more friction for slowing down
- Full-Auto gun
- Ship starts pointed right, then in last position at spawn and emits particles at spawn

Asteroids + Deluxe
- Mix and match bezels and backdrops
- Cyan, white and yellow
- New shaped ship
- Multi shaped asteroids rotate
- Shields
- Mothership and swarmers with a bonus
- Enhanced UFO graphics
- Full-Auto gun
- Ship starts pointed up, and emits particles at spawn

All games have
- Separate particles making up a unique explosion pattern each time now
- Their own attract mode.

I made the UFOs act like the arcade version. Instead of just chasing the ship as they were in previous versions they come in from the side and travel horizontally and diagonally (if they are above the ship, diagonally down, else up)

The shields work nice now and are about arcade perfect and fade as they are used, and last about 14 seconds, though contact with something takes a few seconds off too. Also now, contact with a UFO with shields up destroys the UFO

Hyper jump is never safe, as the ship can appear anywhere, including in an asteroid or enemy, but the first 3 jumps are safe as long as you are lucky enough to emerge in open space. After the third jump though, you have a chance of exploding even if you emerge in open space. I think the math is close to arcade perfect, but perhaps a bit more safe.

If you play Asteroids you will use the Asteroids bezel and backdrop. Deluxe, the deluxe set. You can not change them, that is what Asteroids + Deluxe mode is all about, but if you do not want them you could set the alpha to fade them out, or just one or the other.

Changing game modes will clear the highscore table, and changing difficulty level will do the same.

Latest bugs fixed
- Short delay added to end of High score entering
- UFO would sometimes appear while your ship was exploding or waiting for a clearing to spawn
- The last version let you shoot and thrust while in hyper-jump (the sounds anyway)
- UFO sound would not stop sometimes

No known bugs, or quirks that I was willing to let go are left.

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ASTEROIDS + DELUXE

 

[Shockman]

Like before, I went and added the new code to the keyboard routines and forgot to add it to the joystick routines. So it is updated to correctly use the joystick. While I was at it I added another menu option that was requested by two game makers at YoYo, and that was to use the joystick up for thrust and down for shields. Hyperjump will still use the button though. I don't like this because I, personally get shields or thrust while turning, or turn while thrusting, but my stick is sensitive, and I guess some people like it. Anyway it is just another option.

If it ever gets updated again, it will be because a bug was found, or something drastic like two player games and high score table for each mode.

I think you will find it stable though and much more like the Arcade versions than before.

 

[Shockman]

Due to discussion and feedback

- Asteroids is white
- Asteroids Deluxe is cyan
- Asteroids + is multi-colored (blue/white/yellow)

also

- Each game has it's own attract mode
- Each game has a ship with unique acceleration, and friction
- Arcade behavior for each game mimicked better

 

[bob]

Phil, have you ever heard of this game, Super Stardust HD, it's a PS3 exclusive download game. It may be the best game I've ever played, it's like Asteroids on drugs. It's visually amazing on an HDTV, sounds are unbelievable coming through a Surround Sound system. I would buy a PS3 only to play this game. :)

YouTube - Super Stardust HD Solo AddOn - Endless Mode




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[Shockman]

No. I haven't. It does look spectacular though.

 

[Shockman]

It has been updated with an option to enter full name high score holding players by typing letters.
I also made the Asteroids mode game have a more visible bullet.
UFO's not shooting between the time you explode and re-spawn is fixed.
Joystick control has been fixed up better.

You can find it at the link in the first post, or just going to YoYo Games and looking on the first page of highest rated games. As of right now it's number one out of about 30,000, but it moves around daily.

I think it may be time to try a pinball game, or work on the VP source. I'm leaning towards a game, because any changes to the source of VP will be relatively obscure, even if it did add proper direction, force and counter force to the keyboard nudging.

 

[LauraC]

I heard this news that tackles about asteroids. When we talk about asteroids, this are class of solar system bodies in orbit around the sun. They are also rocky and metallic objects that orbit the sun but are too small to be considered as planets. The earth will be passed by a bus-sized asteroid Monday morning, traveling about 7,500 miles over the ground of the Atlantic. That is closer to us than the moon, and is the fifth closest near-miss in documented history. The proof is here: Fifth closest Asteroid recorded passes earth