Asterodots

By Neil Carter

www.nether.org.uk

A simple remake of the 70s arcade classic Asteroids.

This was intended as a quick project to familiarise myself with parts of the Godot game engine which I hadn't used so far. I wanted to get the whole thing done in a weekend, and that sort of happened if you just add up the hours. In practice, it was about three days of work spread over about a month. Still, it was a good exercise in just getting something done and covering all of the things that are needed to make a complete game. The majority of development time was spent on non-game elements such as the GUI and writing the text for this page!

Controls

Action	Main	Alternative
Turn	Cursor left/right	A/D
Thrust	Cursor up	W
Fire	Space
Pause	Escape	P
Fullscreen mode toggle	Alt-enter

You can also use a game controller.

Source Code

You can download the Godot project files below. I'm releasing them in the hope that others find them interesting or helpful. I didn't try very hard to be consistent or correct, but I think it's reasonably well made.

Credits

Made with Godot: godotengine.org (License)

Font is Space Grotesk by Florian Karsten, available from Google Fonts under the Open Font License.

Sound effects made in ChipTone by Tom Vian.