Fasteroids

Devlog

• Working on 2.40 resolution changes
  July 21, 2023 by Chaslinux#update, #vacation, #new code, #compiling

  I've been working on figuring out how to scale Fasteroids. As of 2.39 the game is set to 640x480, but I've been working on unsetting a lot of hard-coded 1024x768 resolution. I hoped that I would be ab... Continue reading
• Fasteroids 2.39 - resolution switch cleanup
  July 07, 2023 by Chaslinux#resolution, #cleanup, #key remap

  More cleanup from the resolution shift. The game over fly-by has been fixed so the jet now flies under the title text. Font sizes have been adjusted for some titles, and centered a bit better. The cre... Continue reading

  
• Fasteroids 2.38 updated for future resolution changes
  July 06, 2023 by Chaslinux##resolution, ##autofire

  The first new release in a very long time is a major change to Fasteroids. The last release default resolution for Fasteroids was 1024x768, 2.38 reduces the resolution down to 640x360. The reason for... Continue reading

  
• Fasteroids 2.36 Released
  November 04, 2020 by Chaslinux#Autofire

  Fasteroids 2.36 is released. This is a minor change. Autofire has been disabled by default, but can be changed to on in the Settings / Difficulty menu. Some other coding has been done towards future f... Continue reading

  
• Fasteroids 2.35 Released!
  October 28, 2020 by Chaslinux#Fasteroids, #Asteroids, #GameMaker, #GameMaker Studio, #Indie Game

  Fasteroids 2.35 is now available for Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux. This version contains a number of major changes that are different from earlier versions. The player show now auto-fires when the fire... Continue reading
• Fasteroids 2.33 Released
  September 25, 2020 by Chaslinux#Ship, #Invincibility, #Sprite

  A very quick minor change to the main ship sprite to make invincibility a bit more obvious. Before the ship had a small glow that was difficult to see. This change makes it obvious that the ship is "g... Continue reading
• Main ship updated, bug fixes and corrections
  September 24, 2020 by Chaslinux#New Ship, #Bug Fixes

  This release of Fasteroids has a brand new main ship. As many of you know I haven't been satisfied with the simple Asteroids-like ship. After several false starts I have something that I'm starting to... Continue reading

  
• Major overhaul of in-game UI and menu system
  April 17, 2020 by Chaslinux#Difficulty, #Audio, #Menus, #User Interface, #In-Game

  Version 1.8.2 has some major changes over past versions (including 1.8.1). The most obvious change is the reworked in-game interface. I decided to adopt a more minimalist look. The rounded interface e... Continue reading

  
• Big menu changes coming...
  April 15, 2020 by Chaslinux

  I've been working on user interface stuff for weeks now, and I've been pretty quiet the past couple of weeks despite spending more time at home due to COVID19. Much of that time has actually been spen... Continue reading
• Disable Sound
  April 06, 2020 by Chaslinux#Disable Sound, #Sound Off, #Sound On

  Major work has been done to reorganize the menus. I removed the Quit option from all but the main menu. It's still possible to quit the game from any menu by pressing the Q key, but I found listing Qu... Continue reading

  
• Menu changes, slight UI changes, player sprite changes
  March 28, 2020 by Chaslinux#Menus, #Ship, #Sprite

  A lot has changed with this release of Fasteroids. Over the past few weeks I've been working on coming up with a new player sprite. I streamed some of the initial attempt, an SR-71-like image I worked... Continue reading

  
• Fixing menus and development on Twitch update
  March 12, 2020 by Chaslinux#Twitch, #Menus

  While I haven't updated the binaries here on itch.io since the last release 21 days ago (as of this writing), I've been updating the menu code so that the menus all appear more consistent and centered... Continue reading
• Back in business - new PSU
  March 05, 2020 by Chaslinux#Power Supply, #Desktop Alive, #Back In Business

  In the last update I mentioned that my computer occasionally spontaneously rebooted during stress loads. It seemed to happen a lot more often when I added a second monitor (but also happened before on... Continue reading

  
• [Temporary Stall]
  February 27, 2020 by Chaslinux

  In my last post I mentioned some updates, version 1.6, while containing some pretty flawed menu spacing, has some of those updates. The files attached to this blog post represent *almost* the latest i... Continue reading
• Settings menu - Now several difficulty levels
  February 20, 2020 by Chaslinux#Difficulty, #Menus

  It's been a few days since my last devlog. Between work and family commitments I've been really exhausted, but I've managed to make some changes to the main menu, and added a couple of other levels of... Continue reading

  
• [Feature] Burst Laser
  February 14, 2020 by Chaslinux#Laser, #Weapon, #Bonus

  Destroying the red UFO's now has a 4 in 10 chance of spawning a green laser canister, which activates a short burst laser if the player catches the canister before it disappears. The burst laser lasts... Continue reading

  
• [New Version] Bonuses - Missiles, asteroid freezing, and new sound effects
  February 07, 2020 by Chaslinux

  I've added a couple of new weapons to the player arsenal: missiles and asteroid freeze. Both weapons have a limited function time (approximately 10 seconds) and can only be obtained after shooting a g... Continue reading

  
• [New version] UI updates, visible points, in-game music and upcoming bonuses
  February 01, 2020 by Chaslinux#Points, #Music, #User Interface, #Visual Feedback

  Over the past week I've made a lot of changes to the look and feel of Fasteroids. Changes include fonts, music, spacing of certain elements, and new graphics to reflect points when an enemy UFO is sho... Continue reading

  
• Small Overhall - Look and feel
  January 30, 2020 by Chaslinux#Polish, #Music, #Sounds

  This evening I spent several hours doing a small overhaul of different aspects of Fasteroids. The game feels a bit more clean. It also sounds a bit more polished with different music between menu and... Continue reading

  
• [Ubuntu] Fasteroids VM update
  January 25, 2020 by Chaslinux#Ubuntu, #Linux

  When I uploaded the Windows and Ubuntu versions of Fasteroids 3 days ago the Ubuntu version was bad. When tested on a separate system it created a segfault and didn't run. I've run into this before co... Continue reading

  
• [Ubuntu] Recent update regressed
  January 23, 2020 by Chaslinux#Ubuntu, #Pause, #Graphics

  Last night I posted a new version of Fasteroids for both Windows and Ubuntu. While the Ubuntu version compiled successfully last night, when I tested it today it didn't work. There are a couple of tar... Continue reading
• [Ubuntu and Windows] High score saving, user interface tweaks
  January 16, 2020 by Chaslinux#Ubuntu, #Windows, #User Interface, #High Scores, #Saving

  This update includes a slightly mis-matched Windows and Ubuntu version. I compiled the Windows version several days ago and since then have made some minor changes that are reflected in the Ubuntu ver... Continue reading

  
• High Scores are back, galaxies, and code organization
  January 09, 2020 by Chaslinux#High Score, #ds_map

  I've made several changes to Fasteroids recently despite being extremely busy at work and home. It's not completely apparent in this screenshot but there's a fine navy-coloured fog in the background... Continue reading

  
• [Ubuntu] Menus and Asteroids
  December 28, 2019 by Chaslinux#Ubuntu, #Linux, #Menus, #Asteroids

  Yesterday I promised to get an Ubuntu version out soon knowing very well that we'd be very busy the next few days. I woke up a little earlier than planned and managed to find about 20 minutes to build... Continue reading

  
• [Windows update] Menus, Asteroids
  December 28, 2019 by Chaslinux#Main Menu, #Asteroids, #Options

  I've made several changes to Fasteroids recently. I'm rushing this Windows release out because I'll be busy the next couple of days. An Ubuntu version will follow very soon. What's changed? The most o... Continue reading

  
• [Feel] UI changes, voice changes, another asteroid
  December 25, 2019 by Chaslinux#User Interface, #UI, #Female Voice, #New Asteroid, #Ubuntu Packaging, #DEB

  This release brings a number of small changes: There's now a translucent bounding box around the score, lives and waves. I've played with creating half-a-dozen UI elements and this one seemed to work... Continue reading

  
• [Feel] Animations and explosions, Ubuntu adjustment
  December 20, 2019 by Chaslinux#Ubuntu, #Colour, #Color, #Explosions, #UFOs, #Windowed Mode, #Full Screen, #Interpolation, #Lighting

  This evening I finally fixed the issue where the Ubuntu version was starting in windowed mode - it should now start in full screen. I haven't tested this yet, but I made an adjustment in GMS that shou... Continue reading

  
• [Fix & Feel] UFO behaviours, screen shake, end of game, and music
  December 18, 2019 by Chaslinux

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  #Game Over, #Sound, #Screen Shake, #Explosions, #Fixes

  This release adds quite a few small changes. I've changed the Game Over screen to include a simple pixel art background (I actually spent several hours on the background then deleted the big planet I... Continue reading

  
• [Feel] UFO explosions
  December 15, 2019 by Chaslinux#Explosions, #UFOs, #Unidentified Flying Objects, #Aseprite

  I spent a lot of time researching and figuring out how to create some better explosions for the UFOs. Previous explosions were a few white particles that spread out from the UFO. Those particles didn'... Continue reading

  
• Ubuntu [Fix] and .deb file
  December 12, 2019 by Chaslinux#Fix, #BUG, #libcurl4, #Ubuntu, #.deb

  When I released the Ubuntu version 5 days ago I compiled and tested the version on my local Ubuntu development system. I released the fasteroids-f61c7cb-Ubuntu.zip based on the fact that the binary fi... Continue reading

  
• Ubuntu version now available
  December 07, 2019 by Chaslinux

  Fasteroids is now available for Ubuntu! Both Ubuntu (fasteroids-f61c7cb-Ubuntu.zip) and Windows (fasteroids-f61c7cb-Windows.zip versions should be available as of this message. File size has grown sig... Continue reading

  
• Invincibility bug fixed
  December 04, 2019 by Chaslinux#Bug fix, #Invincibility

  I know I posted an updated version of Fasteroids less than 24 hours ago, but after work this evening I solved the "invincibility bug," a bug that's been plaguing Fasteroids for awhile now. The new zip... Continue reading
• The Ultimate UFO
  December 03, 2019 by Chaslinux#Ultime UFO, #Sprite, #Bug Fixes

  There's a new "Ultimate UFO" in Fasteroids. In an earlier version of the game I added green (slow), yellow (faster), and red (fastest) UFOs. This release adds an "Ultimate UFO." Green UFOs are worth 1... Continue reading

  
• Faster UFOs and some sound bugfixes
  November 27, 2019 by Chaslinux#Bosses, #Speed, #UFOs

  A year or so ago I had someone extensively play-test an old version of Fasteroids. They managed to get to the point where the game wasn't increasing in difficulty. With this in mind I decided to chang... Continue reading

  
• New UFO graphics
  November 24, 2019 by Chaslinux

  The red and green UFOs now look a bit more polished. Please let me know if you prefer these graphics over the smaller, more pixelated yellow UFO. This has a more polished feel. I also changed out the... Continue reading

  
• UFOs explode into random bits
  November 08, 2019 by Chaslinux#UFO, #Explosion, #Parts

  A long time ago I had UFOs exploding into a zillion little bits, it wasn't quite what I wanted so I removed the exploding bits. For the past several versions of Fasteroids there's been no UFO destruct... Continue reading

  
• Working on new UFO graphics
  November 06, 2019 by Chaslinux#UFO, #GIMP, #ASEPRITE

  The past 5 days I haven't had Internet access to post any updates. I've been particularly busy doing family/friends activities, but during that time I managed to sneak away a few times. I've made seve... Continue reading

  
• Fixed the Blue UFO bug
  October 31, 2019 by Chaslinux#Bug fix, #UFO, #Enemy

  After updating Fasteroids to include coloured UFOs the old blue UFO should have disappeared. I thought a particular command initialized from 0 to number -1, but in fact it initialized to 0 to number,... Continue reading
• Speed of UFO now determines colour and points
  October 31, 2019 by Chaslinux#UFO, #Enemy, #Speed, #Points

  As the title hints the speed of the UFO now determines which colour of UFO appears: Slow speed UFOs are green and worth 1000 points. Medium speed UFOs are yellow and worth 1200 points. Fast speed UFOs... Continue reading

  
• Minor update: UFO sprites
  October 28, 2019 by Chaslinux#Sprites, #UFO, #Enemy, #Animation

  One of the suggestions I got from a local tester (thanks Rick) was to change the colour of the UFO based on the speed of the UFO. Previously all UFOs had an animated blue top. Probably the best way to... Continue reading