MiniLD #67
Theme: Classic Mash Remix – hosted by bitslap – May 2016
Snake-A-Roid is an entry for the Ludum Dare MiniLD 67 Jam.
It's a mash-up of Asteroids, Snake and a bit of Breakout for good measure.
Shoot the rocks, collect the power-ups, protect the snake's head.
Rocks will bounce off the snake's body and tail harmlessly though, and you won't collide with yourself either - but your bullets won't go through your body.
Controls are arrow keys to move.. shooting happens automatically.
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brilliant! frantic & lots going on, just how an arcade game should be. could be harder though, like you need to avoid self intersecting or avoid your wrapped bullets.
the auto shooting is a great idea & is a natural fit with snake's auto movement, really like the powerup snakefood too.
Cool idea! I expected it to be a little harder, but it's still very interesting.
Thanks for the comments!
Funnily enough, it was harder.. but I slowed down the speed of the asteroids and their spawn rate as I thought I was making it too hard... thankfully, they're all on tweakable variables, so can fix that later.
As for the snake intersecting - I did have that in, but it just made it outright ridiculous, so dropped it, it does give a bit of a breather to coil yourself up when there's so many small rocks flying about though.. avoiding the wrapped bullets might be something to try for a harder mode though - or making the tail susceptible to being hit too.
Definitely planning on working on this a bit more.. it works surprisingly well, and with a few tweaks here and there, some more power-ups, it could be really fun.
So, I've released a new version of this recently for $1.50
It is much faster, has a variety of powerups, different arenas and a crunchy chiptune soundtrack.
I've got plans for updating it further to release on other platforms as well.
You can find it on itch: https://arcadebadgers.itch.io/snake-a-roid
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Very well made, the looks are retro and it's fun to play, good work!