Space Dash - A very simple space side-scroller

[Jonki]

This is the first game I have ever made, inspired by Copter Classic. May not be the best thing ever, but I'm very happy about how it turned out. 


Description

The game play is very simple. You control a little space rocket, trying to dodge asteroids coming towards you. To stay alive, you must also continually pick up fuel containers. The game will go on until you suffer lethal damage or restart/exit the game.

The game has 6 different difficulty levels. Easy, medium and hard, each with a hardcore variant. Scores are saved for each difficulty level separately.


Download

Space Dash 1.1 (Windows)
NOTE: Had you downloaded an earlier version and having problems with the new one, try deleting the old SDSettings.txt file located in C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents

Source code available at GitHub

Note that I will not take responsibility of any heart attacks or psychosis episodes resulting from observing the code. I'm very much still learning, and there will be flaws in my code. I will happily take any constructive advice, though. 

Changelog:
1.1 (10/5/2013)
- Added two more control scheme options
- Reduced file size

1.01 (26/4/2013)
- Initial release


Screenshots

[The Terminator]

Very cool.

Pros:
Great sound effects
Good graphics
Smooth and fluid

Cons:
Huge filesize
At times, the game is almost impossible even on easy. Meteors will cover the entire screen so it's impossible to evade them.

In all, great game!

[Jonki]

Very cool.

Pros:
Great sound effects
Good graphics
Smooth and fluid

Cons:
Huge filesize
At times, the game is almost impossible even on easy. Meteors will cover the entire screen so it's impossible to evade them.

In all, great game!

Thanks for the feedback!

The size is mostly due to the music files being in .wav format. Each of them takes tens of megabytes.
The difficulty might be due to using a lower resolution. I designed the game using a 1080p monitor and didn't make the objects scale for lower resolutions. I may do an update to fix this in the coming days.


Thank you for trying out the game and glad you like it.

[eXpl0it3r]

Looks nice!
For the gameplay, it feels kind of unplayable, since the ship reacts way too fast to the input. I mean there's no going straight or even semi straight, there's just up and down and to keep some kind of line, you have to tab spacebar like mad. I'd rather have an approach where you keep the path when you do nothing and then can decide to either go up or down. Would logically also make more sense, since there's no gravity in space that would pull you down...

The size is mostly due to the music files being in .wav format. Each of them takes tens of megabytes.

You should then simply use OGG files (like MP3 just better ) instead.

[Jonki]

Thanks for the suggestions!

I'm not going to dump the current control scheme, but I could add some more options. Although I kinda want to move on to my next project, I'll see about adding those in an update. I'll also take a look at the .ogg format, thank you.

[santiaboy]

Thanks for the suggestions!

I'm not going to dump the current control scheme, but I could add some more options. Although I kinda want to move on to my next project, I'll see about adding those in an update. I'll also take a look at the .ogg format, thank you.

You can use http://media.io/ to convert the files. Then you just have to change .wav to .ogg in the code :p

It will reduce the size a lot.

[Jonki]

Updated OP with a link to a new version of the game and a changelog.

[Roose Bolton of the Dreadfort]

Played it and I loved it! I am working on a game very similar to this at the moment too