Asteroids!

Asteroids by Ryanc1256!

Asteroids by ryanc1256 on Gamefroot is a top-down video game that falls under sub-genre shoot-em-up. It is about your player (spaceship) dodging and destroying asteroids while flying through space. This game strongly resembles 1979’s ‘Asteroids’ by Atari, specifically its game-play and art.

Story

Unfortunately, there is no narrative in Asteroids but only an objective. The objective in Asteroids is to survive for as long as you can, while navigating this spaceship through space, dodging and destroying asteroids. I learned that a game doesn’t need to have a story to engage with its audience. It may be challenge that drives the audience in to video game and immerse themselves in this challenge. In this case, the challenge is to dodge and destroy asteroids for as long as possible.

Art

The art in Asteroids is very basic and simple. The player can clearly see that the game is set in space due to the background art of stars and darkness. The objects are somewhat detailed enough to tell the player what it is. Informing the player what is what and what they feel like they should do. I think art doesn’t need to be eye-drawing or complex to draw the player into the game. Art can be simple but still grasp the players’ attention with other aspects the game contains. In Asteroids, I believe game-play is what keeps the player engaged. 

Game-play

The game-play in Asteroids is simple and very easy to learn. The controls are shown in the description of the video game. The player uses the arrow keys to manoeuvre around flying asteroids. The controls still need some polishing and redeveloping. You can shoot beams from your spaceship to destroy asteroids. It’s fun destroying and blowing things up generally, well, for me at least but there is no goal to Asteroids. I’ve considered the object

When I first opened Asteroids, I think a bug may have occurred because everything was moving fast and I couldn’t move. I’ve considered possibilities of glitches and bugs that may occur and have come to an understanding that mistakes happen :) haha