Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by Steve16384 on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:21AM
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I created a reverse Space Invaders a few months ago, but I struggled to get it to be a fun game as you just move left and right avoiding the players bullets. (I'd post a gif, but it looks exactly like Space Invaders to watch).
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by razorbeamz on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:00AM
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Nintendo and Namco made a multiplayer Pac-Man for GameCube where three players play as ghosts on Game Boy Advances and can see the whole map, while one player plays as Pac-Man with a limited view.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by dguest on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:37AM
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Sim City was already a "you are the bad guys" game!
The creator of Sim City was working on a game called Raid on Bungeling Bay" [1] where your job was to bomb a fully functional civilization into the stone age. He had so much fun developing the civilization that he decided to make a game of it.
So maybe we just need a "Raid on Bungling Bay Redux: Massacre of The Sims".
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by philipallstar on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:35AM
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> Creative Computing in 1984 said that the game "push[es] the animation capabilities of the Commodore 64 to their very limits". The magazine concluded that it would become "one of the all-time great computer games".
Gaming journalism didn't only recently become ridiculous, it turns out.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by egypturnash on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:28AM
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Smooth full-screen scrolling on the c64 was hard. In the years since 1984 people discovered ways to use unintended behavior in the c64's video chips to move a lot more of the screen around seamlessly, but ROBB's fast omnidirectional scrolling was pretty slick for a game from the same year the c64 came out.
Raid Over Bungelling Bay grew into Sim City, which had remakes over two decades and spawned an entire genre of "city builders", I think there is indeed an argument that it became an "all-time great".
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by latexr on Monday September 14, 2026 @07:40AM
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I second (from another comment) the suggestion for CARRION. Think of it like those 80’s movies where an amorphous creature is captured/created and stuck in a lab. You play as the creature, trying to get out.
Also, not exactly playing as the bad guy but Enemy Mind is a fun tangential concept where instead of having your own ammo and life, you’re constantly possessing enemy ships and using their resources, before discarding them for the next one.
Coincidentally it’s now with 60% discount and it’s worth it at that price. If I recall (it’s been many years since I played it) the game was short and didn’t have a lot going for it outside the gimmick.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by baruz on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:32PM
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The number of ships increases, and then the speed, and then the accuracy with which they fire. The gravity generator seems slower to recharge, and the asteroids are slower to generate, or that may be subjective.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by baruz on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:58AM
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Different ships that can survive and bounce on slower or glancing hits, shields, more maneuverable saucer ships. Wave fifteen the ships reload and fire really rapidly, decimated a crowded field in seconds.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by dgently7 on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:39PM
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unlike regular asteroids where you can keep track of your ship bc you only have to follow one object around the screen and you control it it seems like the hardest part of this game is finding the ships. esp. when they star to be multiple
shapes. it would lightly break the vibe but making the ships a different color would help a lot.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by zargon on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:36AM
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Fun for about 5 minutes but screeches to a halt when ships start to teleport. Only takes a few minutes to be able to get to wave 12 and then there's no progress after that.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by xingped on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:52AM
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Yeah, the teleporting was an exceedingly annoying and un-fun mechanic. In games, players don't like when something happens without warning and are unable to react to it. This is why we have telegraphing. Dev, if you want to keep the mechanic, give it a charge up time and an indicator of the impending direction of a warp. Otherwise, funny idea for a game.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by xbar on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:53AM
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I agree that the idea that some number of teleporting ships scales past the ability to bring enough chaotic asteroids to bear on them seems like a design problem. For me, that was six ships on wave 14. The field is rapidly emptied of threats.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by dimond on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:45AM
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Great Game! I think we'd all have an easier time with color added, which is why this game is challenging in a good way. Side-note: I beat 9th place globally! Let's go.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by Sniffnoy on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:57AM
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So I got a really high score before I signed in, only signed in afterwards, and now, even though my high score displays on the "best wave" display for me, it's nowhere on the global high score board. I'm just going to have to, like, get it again somehow?? That's annoying.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by esperent on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:06AM
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One of the most frustrating things about mobile gaming is that you can't just release a game, you have to commit to keeping it updated for the rest of your life or else accept that in 2-3 years nobody will be able to play it.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
by nnevatie on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:57AM
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Since not all asteroids are pulled to the gravity simultaneously, some kind of background starfield could make it clearer that the camera/viewport is moving.
On a different note, Rampage was a great game where you’re the bad guy. I had a blast playing this as a kid.
donkey kong, play as donkey and try to time barrel throws to hit mario
galaga, play as the fleet, control left right of the whole fleet and have the 3-4 different "attacks" you could send out.
The creator of Sim City was working on a game called Raid on Bungeling Bay" [1] where your job was to bomb a fully functional civilization into the stone age. He had so much fun developing the civilization that he decided to make a game of it.
So maybe we just need a "Raid on Bungling Bay Redux: Massacre of The Sims".
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Bungeling_Bay
Gaming journalism didn't only recently become ridiculous, it turns out.
Raid Over Bungelling Bay grew into Sim City, which had remakes over two decades and spawned an entire genre of "city builders", I think there is indeed an argument that it became an "all-time great".
https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/
Also, not exactly playing as the bad guy but Enemy Mind is a fun tangential concept where instead of having your own ammo and life, you’re constantly possessing enemy ships and using their resources, before discarding them for the next one.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/285840/Enemy_Mind/
Coincidentally it’s now with 60% discount and it’s worth it at that price. If I recall (it’s been many years since I played it) the game was short and didn’t have a lot going for it outside the gimmick.
I didn't play for too long, but I just clicked between the ship and asteroids and near-instantly destroyed it, quickly passing the waves I played.
Is there difficulty ramp later on?
There can be a set of really cool things one can do with Asteroids. Some years ago I made a game which is a mix of Asteroids+Bomberman+Pacman.
https://kenamick.itch.io/spaceghost-cga
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.ivanludvig....
for those who want to have easter egg on their pet projects with konami cheat code
Thanks!