Survive by letting groups of very angry enemies do all your work... using a highly advanced technique called "letting them crash into asteroids". Note: Two hackatime projects because I changed the name, so both are for the same project
(Technically #2, but the first one doesn’t really count.)
(Game made in Unity)
It’s been over a week since my last devlog, and I’ve made a lot of changes. I changed my original game idea where you had a wrecking ball in space, because it didn’t feel fun.
Still space mining, but you can’t actually mine anything.
And to make it even better, hundreds of enemies are flying straight toward you, and all the resources you want are inside asteroids.
Fortunately, these enemies have ‘volunteered’ to help.
All you have to do is ‘convince’ enemies to crash into asteroids.
Enemies destroy themselves, asteroids break apart, resources are released, and everyone except you is doing the work. You’ll collect the resources and use it to craft tools, to help manipulate the environment.
Use coins you get to unlock more tools after you die.
Here’s what I already have so far:
More detailed explanation below
The player can use either Keyboard or Mouse to move. The game detects which one you are using and automatically switches.
The ship rotates toward the mouse cursor with speed calculated using distance from cursor to player.
The enemy behaviour uses:
Enemies rotate toward player using turning speed.
Low-thrust enemies make wide turns, while high-thrust enemies make more accurate turns.
Enemy velocity is capped with max speed.
Health scales with mass and ore. Mass also affects movement speed.
Asteroids are assigned a direction when they spawn. Slowly corrects direction if pushed off course.
The current game loop:
Game Manager handles main logic.
Added after realizing asteroids are hard to find.
Created using a secondary camera with a larger view. Camera follows the player and renders to a texture, displayed in UI.
Asteroids spawn from a list of spawn points spread across the map.
Every ~25 seconds, chance to spawn at each point.
Each asteroid has:
Spawn points are attached to the player.
Every ~5 seconds, a random spawn point is selected and an enemy bunch is spawned.
Initially, every enemy and asteroid was created using Instantiate(), which caused lag.
To solve this, I switched to object pooling.
The object pool creates a collection of enemies and asteroids. When an object is needed, it is activated and moved into position.
This improved overall performace.
There’s still a lot left to make:
This was a much larger devlog than usual, but since I have changed so much, I didn’t want to skip anything.
Personally, I think the game is more fun than the earlier wrecking ball idea, and though the game is not finished, it still feels good to play.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, I would really appreciate them.
Thanks!
(Note: Some parts might feel a bit weird since I had to shorten it to fit it in the character limit)
I am making a game where you can control a magnet which attracts a wrecking ball in space. There will be enemies and asteroids in the environment. You can destroy the asteroids to get certain ores, which you can use for upgrades later on. You have to try to survive as long as possible, and collect as many resources.
I am currently not sure which path I should go:
Make it so each time you play, there will be an xp bar, which fills up as you defeat enemies. Once it fills up, you can choose an upgrade which will help you survive.
There is no xp bar, but instead, after you die, you can use the ores collected to choose permanent upgrades.
I would really appreciate any suggestions or feedback.
