Spaceships flips Asteroids: you're the asteroid, hunting the ships
Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
A browser game that inverts the classic arcade formula: instead of piloting a ship and dodging asteroids, you control the asteroid and smash the spaceships. The Hacker News thread praises the twist, with players noting the challenge of tracking multiple ships and requesting difficulty ramps, color coding, and arrow-key support. One commenter even built a first-person Asteroids variant.
Unlike regular asteroids where you can keep track of your ship because you only have to follow one object around the screen and you control it, it seems like the hardest part of this game is finding the ships, especially when they start to be multiple shapes.
- zargon
Fun for about 5 minutes but screeches to a halt when ships start to teleport. Only takes a few minutes to be able to get to wave 12 and then there's no progress after that.
- dgently7
unlike regular asteroids where you can keep track of your ship bc you only have to follow one object around the screen and you control it it seems like the hardest part of this game is finding the ships. esp. when they star to be multiple
shapes. it would lightly break the vibe but making the ships a different color would help a lot.
- p2detar
Neat game! I managed to get to level 11 but got beat up.
There can be a set of really cool things one can do with Asteroids. Some years ago I made a game which is a mix of Asteroids+Bomberman+Pacman.
- tommica
Oh this is a fun game! Just keep moving the asteroids non-stop, that way you can catch them when they spawn
- dimond
Great Game! I think we'd all have an easier time with color added, which is why this game is challenging in a good way. Side-note: I beat 9th place globally! Let's go.