Astroid

The goal of Astroid is to get down as low as possible while avoiding asteroids. By pressing the A button, the flying saucer goes right; otherwise, it goes left. The asteroid field becomes denser with time to make more exciting the game.

Features:
* Procedural generation of the asteroid field
* Increasing level of difficulty
* Score
* Vertical parallax srolling

Game development is not finished. It lacks audio, title screen and many other things... but it is playable!

INSTALLATION
You need to download a NES emulator for executing the NES rom of Astroid. Personally, I use fceux:
http://www.fceux.com/web/home.html

COMPILATION
If you want to compile the source file, you need NESASM3:
http://www.nespowerpak.com/nesasm/

Comments6

GaTechGrad22 Jun 2014, 22:56

Nice game! I'll definitely check out your source code to see how you handled scrolling and asteroid generation.

Optimus612823 Jun 2014, 11:03

Wow nice, I like the faded planet background. It plays with a single key, kinda hard to keep stable, and the collision sometimes is unfair. But good graphics and explosions, hehe.

Kemoiz23 Jun 2014, 18:14

Really enjoy the graphics, but collision handling actually needs improvement :< also, sometimes there isn't enough space to squeeze the ship through. Nice idea for gameplay, engaging!

FyberOptic24 Jun 2014, 03:33

Aint it funny how the simplest concepts can hook you in? The graphics are definitely nice, and the explosion is particularly excellent. I know it's not easy working with the 6502, so good work on things like procedural asteroids, too.

ObscenelyTrueauthor24 Jun 2014, 19:30

Thank you for your kind comments. Collisions are clearly not pixel-perfect. Here the saucer and asteroids are just boxes... I really need more time and a lot of work for improving this point. Maybe I spent too much time on graphics (especially the explosion with its 14 frames:).

Tosic28 Jun 2014, 04:44

The game is cool, and just the fact it is hardly playable makes it even more retro!
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