Pointless

Info

Pointless is a game inspired by Asteroids.

My main goal was to use a very simple project to force me to develop some cool features.

I added a little constraint: no weapons. So I had to find a way to destroy asteroids without using a weapon. You only have a speed boost so you have to crash into asteroids to destroy them.

Controls

I suggest you to use a Gamepad to play: 

• Analog to move
• A to boost
• B to slow time

If you only have keyboard at hand:

• WASD to move
•  SPACE to boost
• SHIFT to slow time

Pointless development goals

• Adaptive camera movement: the camera follows the spaceship based on it's speed and direction.
• Trauma based screenshake: some events produce an amount of trauma that is added to the camera and produces a shake. Trauma depletes with time producing a natural effect.
• Slow motion: useless but cool
• Use a finite state machine for player states: you always have to implement a FSM to manage player states
• Color palette shader: I created a color swap palette shader to limit the game to 6 colors. I could also change colors at runtime but I didn't use that feature in this game
• In game debug layers: see this tweet and this tweet 

Credits

Music: Stars by Decktonic