PlanetDefender
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Background-Story
Bad luck on an astronomical scale! The Kuiper-belt was disturbed and countless asteroids are hurling towards our planet.
Delay the inevitable for as long as possible and destroy down as many as you can as commander of earth's last remaining starship.
Maybe you can buy enough time to allow some rescue-ships to escape?
CONTROLS
* WASD to fly.
* Left Mouse to fire your laser.
* Right Mouse to fire your rockets (5sec CD).
* ESC to pause/go into menu.
MECHANICS
* Bigger Asteroids have more hitpoints.
* Gather metal-debris from destroyed asteroids to add power for your AOE attack (right-mouse-click).
STATE
well.. we only had 2 of 5 team-members this time around and only about 12hours each to spend while working.. hence, we chose a much smaller scope than usual (good choice). We did not really manage to complete what we wanted to get done, but we feel like it's a well-rounded complete gameloop with quite some potential... simple, but fun and challenging.
Let's see if you can beat our best of 1min:58sec ...