Woo!

You’ve probably known that I’ve been making a game. If you haven’t known… well, now you do. And I’ve finally completed it… at 3am in the morning. Dammit! Where did the day get to?! Better make this quick then.

The game is called Asteroids!, and it’s a remake of Atari Inc.’s popular arcade game Asteroids (go Google it if you’ve been living under a rock for the last few decades) – with a few tweaks and additions of my own, of course.

I’ve done it as a portfolio piece for a subject I’m doing at Uni right now, and I’ve designed it to the point that another person can download it and play it. Thus, I’m releasing the game for public play (although, this blog gets mostly visited by spambots, so I doubt it’ll be very “public”) on the Windows platform. If people want to play it on a Mac or Linux, leave a comment and I’ll get back to you with a specific compiled version of it for your platform of choice.

Although it’s a final release, there is possibly a bug or two still floating around (besides physics bugs – they’re never going away because I can’t be bothered making collisions better), so if you see one, give me a heads up in the comments so I can squish it!

The controls are simple enough: Up Arrow for Thruster, Left and Right Arrows to rotate, and Space to shoot. For the menus, use Up and Down Arrows to navigate, Left and Right Arrows to cycle through options on the Options menu, and Enter to select a menu item on any menu. Also, you can press Escape while playing to bring up the pause menu.

You can play in windowed mode (although I say you’re crazy to do that) or in fullscreen mode, in any resolution your computer can handle. A bigger resolution is better, though, as you get a bigger playing area on a bigger resolution (and more asteroids! ).

Enough blabbing, I think I’ve armed you with enough knowledge to run this virus play this game.

Download: Asteroids! [Final Release] – Win32 – 6.24MB