Spaceships

My gamejam submission for GMTK 2023 called "Spaceships". Theme of the jam was role-reversal. You play as a spaceship with the goal of destroying asteroids, but as you progress you'll end up  on the receiving end of the firepower, and you'll be the one having to dodge and weave while still destroying the asteroids...

No music/sound unfortunately: the HTML game builder couldn't handle music/sound files properly, so those had to be removed.

What makes this game work:

• Asteroids only shoot back when you're in close proximity. This help the player in the beginning in terms of difficulty.
• After having survived for 1 minute, the asteroids will start moving towards the player. 
• This means the asteroids will get closer together, making it easier for them to shoot each other, but also make things harder for the player because the field gets more and more crowded.
• Together this slowly morphs the game from a traditional "Asteroids" game to more of a "Bullet Hell" kind of game.

Controls:

• Left/Right keys to rotate your ship
• Up key to accelerate
• Left shift key (while accelerating) to engage afterburner
• Spacebar key to shoot bullets

Many thanks to the people who made the assets I used in the game:

• m6x11 font by Daniel Linssen 
• Simple space tileset from Kenney