2025-01-09 updates:
Title Screen! (WIP)
Difficulty adjustments:
powerup drop chance reduced significantly
increased size of smallest asteroid fragments, scaled up asteroids overall
screen shake!
2025-01-04 updates:
More particles, asteroid trails, thruster
sound effects for pickups, shield hit, player death
asteroid spawn rate adjusted for difficulty
the bug I'm seeing with running in browser on the BBS on 0.1.1e-dev2 persists, but the cart works great if you download it and run on 0.1.1d.
2024-12-31 v4 Updates:
Particle effects polish, explosion particles
powerups: shield boost, temporary 3 bullet spread gun
classic asteroids drone background music WIP
background planet via abledbody's sphere impostor
V3 update: Added vector graphics via Sophie's VGFX editor and library.
Starfield background.
Some sound effects are in.
UFO fly-by worth 5000 points is in, WIP
My first browser JavasScript game was an Impact-engine Asteroids clone titled "Planetoid Decimator" so my first Picotron game will bear the same name, as I learn the basics of lua and Picotron game development.
I've added numerous things in this update:
Score, wave system to increase difficulty
score display, wave display
asteroids
dynamic vector asteroid drawing
larger asteroids split into fragments
asteroids spawn off screen edge
bullets screen wrap
asteroids knock-back player
I've decided to borrow some features from later asteroids games like Blasteroids and Space Duel. I've given myself a hard deadline of Jan 30 to finish this to prevent scope creep. I'll spend the next couple sessions fleshing out the remaining core gameplay bits.
Core gameplay loop complete, this update includes player shields, player death, title screen
game over state, difficulty selection. Only a few more gameplay items I want to add before
moving on to visuals and sounds:
UFO flyby that shoots at player
power ups: dual/spread shot, laser beam
Latest update: Added vector graphics via Sophie's VGFX editor and library.
Starfield background.
Some sound effects are in.
UFO fly-by worth 5000 points is in, WIP
2024-12-31 v4 Updates:
Particle effects polish, explosion particles
powerups: shield boost, temporary 3 bullet spread gun
classic asteroids drone background music WIP
background planet via abledbody's sphere impostor
2025-01-04 updates:
More particles, asteroid trails, thruster
sound effects for pickups, shield hit, player death
asteroid spawn rate adjusted for difficulty
the bug I'm seeing with running in browser on the BBS on 0.1.1e-dev2 persists, but the cart works great if you download it and run on 0.1.1d.
(latest cart at top)
2025-01-09 updates:
Title Screen! (WIP)
Difficulty adjustments:
powerup drop chance reduced significantly
increased size of smallest asteroid fragments, scaled up asteroids overall
screen shake!
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