Author’s Readme

Mine-X 4K is an Asteroids / Geometry Wars variant. I know, not too original, but I attempted to squeeze as much in as possible. The game is built completely in Actionscript with no external assets. It employs a completely blit game screen and pixel perfect collision detection.

Instructions: Zoom around the 360 degree scrolling play field, Asteroids style, and blast all of the fast moving mines in each sector. Use the radar screen to see the entire sector. You can even use it to blast mines off screen. All of the enemy, missiles and particles are also displayed on the radar. You only get one ship, so be very careful.

Keys: Arrows to move (rotate left and right and thrust with up) and space bar fires.

Compilation: Included is the Flash Develop project to compile. The project should be usable out of the box, but if you need to re-compile with your own project and just the main.as class, you will need to add

-raw-metadata “

To the compiler options to ensure that it stays under 4K.
Obviously, please let me know if you can’t get it to compile under 4K

The source is freely available for distribution.

Game by: Jeff Fulton jeff@8bitrocket.com www.8bitrocket.com

Judge’s Comments

Michael: This title impressed me. There’s a great glow applied to all the graphics and the particle effects are pretty solid as well. The large mini-map the right is a great inclusion as well. The gameplay is an asteroids variant, but I wanted to see more of a progression in terms of difficulty. I was basically able to just sit in the middle and spin. The only variation level to level seemed to be the color of the enemies.

Chris: Clean style, time tested game mechanic. Enjoyed the bouncy walls instead of wrap around. Wish you had done something special to make this game unique, plus the bullets should’ve had the players velocity added to them.

Panayoti: Another geometry wars inspired game. The game is well executed and is pretty. I wish that my missiles inherited my velocity when I was flying so that I could actually fire in the direction I was accelerating. It’s fun but also quite hard. I was a little sad when I realized the best strategy was simply to sit still and snipe using the minimap.

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