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Against The Rocks is a space shooter game inspired from the original Asteroids game that I've made during the retro jam week session.
The game was made using Unreal Engine 4.26 with custom psx graphics shaders, materials, post procesing effects and a fixed 4:3 camera.
Against The Rocks features 6 different playable ships and three different maps with different difficulty.
Each ship besides the started ship (Vanguard) has a high score requirement in order to be unlocked.
The game is a little bit different than the original Asteroids game, in fact in this game you can't teleport yourself by crossing the borders.
There are a total of 6 different enemies, 3 types of Asteroids, 3 type of supernatural events, 3 types of powerups and 6 controllable ships.
Spawn rate of enemies and asteroids are different based on the level you choose.
On the easy map they will take longer to appear while on normal and hard map they will take less.
Also the spawn rate between each appearance decreases as time goes on every map. That means that the more you play the more the game gets difficult.
-----Asteroids-----
Small asteroids - Grants 120 points when destroyed, they are usually created when you destroy medium sized and big asteroids but can spawn on their own too.
Medium asteroids - Grants 30 points when destroyed, they are instantly destroyed just like small asteroids but slower and easier to hit. Once destroyed they will spawn small asteroids.
Big asteroids - Grants 350 points when destroyed, they are slow but have lots of health and insta one shots all ships in the game. It can take sometime to put them down. They will spawn both medium sized and small sized asteroids when destroyed.
-----Ships-----
Small size alien ships - Grants 500 points, they move only on one direction and disappear when they get out of the camera view.
Medium size alien ships - Grants 1500 points, they follow the player for X seconds and then move in one direction till they are out of camear view.
Large size alien ships - Grants 5000 points, they are the same as medium sized alien ships ai wise, but with much greater firerate and health.
Very large size alien ships - Grants 10000 points, even greater firepower and health. Has special attack.
Space creature - Grants 15000 points, destroys everything that comes into its path instantly. Has lots of health but moves extremly slowly, best used as a shield againt alien ships. Available only on normal and hard map.
-----Supernatural Events-----
Fire vortex - Slow to move, can't be destroyed. Will take down your health or shield every tick that you are inside its radious.
Void vortex - Fast to move, can't be destroyed. More damaging than the fire vortex, available only on hard map.
Portals - Will take you from one side of the map to the another part. They spawn randomly and are pink in colour (ring shape).
-----Powerups-----
Red bubble - Triple your fire rate for 15 seconds.
Blue bubble - It will form a shield that will absorb damage based on 1/3 of your max health for 30 seconds.
Green bubble - Restore 50% from your max health to your health.
-----Controllable Ships-----
Vanguard: Started ship, an all rounder, good speed but slow to rotate and has little HP. Gets one-two shotted easily. Has one blue laser cannon and decent fire rate.
Cruiser: Good speed and rotation and decent firepower. Double the HP of the Vanguard. Has one purple laser cannon that fires a little bit slower than the vanguard.
Commander: Even more HP than the Cruiser but has more health and more firepower. Has one green laser cannon that fires faster than the previous two ships.
Interceptor: Double HP compared to the Commander, more speed, same rotation but much more firepower. Has two purple laser cannons that fires pretty fast. It's also a much bigger ship compared to the previous ship and it has a big hit box.
Reclaimer: 5 Times the HP of the Interceptor, less speed, less rotation and double the size of the Interceptor, but has 3 red laser cannons that fires extremly fast.
Alien Annihilator: Less HP than the Reclaimer, less speed and also slow to rotate. But has 5 Yellow laser cannons with the fastest laser projectiles of all the ships.
-----Controls-----
Keyboard:
W, A, S, D or UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT for movement.
Spacebar for normal weapon fire, V for special attack.
ESC or P for pause menu.
Gamepad:
DIGITAL UP, DIGITAL LEFT, DIGITAL DOWN, DIGITAL RIGHT for movement.
A for normal fire.
X for special attack.
Start for pause menu.
Y to regain UI control if focus is lost.
I would really appreciate any tips if you enjoyed the game as It will help enormously to get the funds and start working on bigger projects.
#shooter #retro #space #psx #asteroids #highscore
