– Asteroids Game –
This is a free online Asteroids game (clone) with a twist, imagine Asteroids meets Nemesis for a good night out, here’s the result. Your starter ship is rather, well pants actually, so collect the power-ups to get the upgrades you so desperately need to win. Should you improve your ship’s speed or rotation first, upgrade the gun or go straight for the mega-super-(actually-rather-overpowered)-smart-bomb? Only you can decide.
This Asteroids game is designed to get you moving a little more than the Atari original so don’t expect to just sit in the middle spinning around shooting like a maniac. Get thrusting and learn how to control the ship, it’ll help with some of my upcoming games too. You can find enough more or less accurate clones with a quick google and I wanted to add a twist to get you to want “just one more go”.
Asteroids Game showing smart bomb being activated.
The original Asteroids game was developed by Atari way back in the seventies. For those of you old enough to remember it, hopefully you’ll also enjoy this version.
Please check out some of my other free online games. While you’re here don’t forget to post a comment, good or bad. Check back often as I’ll be uploading more games soon. Oh by the way, I do this just for fun so if you’re some pro programmer and this this game is terribad compared to yours well you’re probably right. It’s a hobby, not a profession, I have a real job too that I’m slightly better at than programming online game, sort of…
Enjoy!
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Bullet Range Replacement.
Bullet Speed increases both range and speed and I don’t see a reason to change that. However that does make Bullet Range largely redundant and when Range and Speed are both at 5 I think it’s way overpowered. The question is what power-up would you like to see replace Bullet Range and which position should it go in the power-up hierarchy (currently 6).
Power-Up Pathway – What’s your favourite?
I like alternating Thrust and Turn until they’re at 3 or 4 each before moving onto Bullet Amount and Speed, again alternating until they’re both about 3. At that stage I tend to upgrade all four to 5. Space Brake isn’t for me and since I’m replacing Range soon (didn’t I mention that already?) I tend to ignore that one. Smart Bomb? Oh yes but only when everything else is full, SB may need a bit of a nerf in upcoming releases for balance, let me know your thoughts.