paper asteroids [experimental]

Prompt: Make an experimental variant of the classic arcade game Asteroid.

Based off of: https://freeasteroids.org/

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Features:

✔    Tweak the ship controls to make them more “tight” and less prone to inertia like in this implementation 

✔    Make it so you can shoot by holding the button down but limit the rate of bullets so it doesn’t get too easy (Shoot with mouse or space).

✔    The game currently has a bug: the asteroids only split once instead of going through big, medium, and small sizes. Fix it (it just needs one inspector tweak). 

✔    Reskin the game by replacing graphics, font, animations, effects, and sounds. Come up with a visually consistent style/theme, eg: claymation, insects, pencil drawn etc…

✔    Implement a different kind of bullet that changes the asteroids clearing dynamic (Use new laser by pressing X).

✔ ✘  [HALF DONE] Implement a shield triggered by the “down” input that makes the ship invulnerable and able to destroy asteroids on contact. The shield has an energy that runs out in 2 seconds and takes about 20 seconds to recharge completely. Add a bar on the interface that visualizes the shield energy.

✘    Make the game two player, either competitive or cooperative, by tweaking input mapping, spawn points, and end conditions.

✘    Add a flying saucer like in this implementation. [I am so bad at this game that I couldn't get to the flying saucer part.]

✔    Delivery: Build it for WebGL and upload it somewhere so it can be played from the browser. Otherwise make a build that runs on your computer.

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Typeface by Camellina.

SFX from CC licensed audio samples of paper folding, stapling, flipping pages, etc.

Experimental game changes made for EGS.