Perseidai

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3249 PC 07 07 0932Z

ATTN: PRIORITY ALPHA

SUBJ: FW: MOBILIZE ALL FIGHTERS, ASTEROID IMPACT IMMINENT

FROM: 193TRNSQ/XO, ORGN: 19FLTCM/CC

XXTO: 193STDNT, ORGN: 193TRNSQ/CC, 193TRNSQ/XO

ATTM: MISSION_BRIEFING.TXT

Greetings pilot,

It's your lucky day. I know you've only recently begun your pilot training with the ISC, but it looks like we'll be accelerating your timeline. We'll be sending you on your first mission, pronto. Techs are already warming up the plane for you.

A hitherto undetected meteor shower will be passing through this region of space within the next hour. Unfortunately, all of Sycamore Station's defenses are down for maintenance, which means we're sitting ducks. The commander has ordered all capable spacecraft to launch immediately with weapons hot. And since we're short on pilots, you'll be going with them.

Don't worry, I've seen your scores in the simulations. Those asteroids are tough, but they ain't invincible. Just hit them with a well-placed HE round and they'll turn to dust. Just watch out for the big ones; they may take a couple hits.

Make us proud, pilot. The lives of everyone on this station are depending on you. 

Godspeed. o7

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PERSEIDAI

Perseidai is a modern take on the arcade classic, where you blast apart asteroids from your spaceship. Spaceship controls are vaguely Newtonian, and you fly through toroidal space. Watch out for asteroids flying around from the other side of the screen!

Perseidai is my first game. It's simple and straight forward, as I wanted to push something out for the world to see and prove that I can make a game. I've dabbled in Unity for years just for fun, and have a variety of prototypes sitting in storage, but have never actually released something before. 

So here's my first one. My intent is to start off small and eventually work my way up to finally realizing some of the bigger ideas I've envisioned. As such, this project likely won't receive many updates from here on out, but I may come back to it when it strikes my fancy. I hope it gives you a bit of fun, and please post your high score in the comments!

CONTROLS

While the controls are straightforward, handling a spaceship is no easy task! That's why you're a trained a pilot, trusted to defend Sycamore Station with your keen reflexes and aptitude for flying. Here's how to control your ship:

FORWARD THRUST - W or UP ARROW

ROTATE LEFT - A or LEFT ARROW

ROTATE RIGHT - D or RIGHT ARROW

SHOOT - SPACE or MOUSE 1

In space, an object in motion stays in motion. This applies to your spaceship as well, and once you start moving, you'll keep moving. To stop or change direction, you'll need to turn and apply thrust in the direction you want to accelerate, or to cancel out your existing motion.

Your spaceship, the S/A-12 Ridgeback, is equipped with a single 20mm cannon firing high velocity HE shells in three-round bursts. Simply aim and hold the trigger to fire a burst, or tap the trigger once to fire a single round. The autoloader mechanism inside the craft will reload automatically once you've fired all available rounds.

LINKS

This game was created entirely, 100% on stream, minus administrative stuff such as setting up this store page or doing research on the web. You can check out any future streams at: https://picarto.tv/Madash

While this project was a solo effort, I made use of a number of pre-made assets which are not my own work. It's only fair that I credit them as well, so here they are!

Music - Michael La Manna
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/audio/music/badlands-music-pack-2-43568

Audio SFX - Cafofo
Link unavailable due to deprecated package/missing account

Audio SFX - Leafland Audi0
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/audio/sound-fx/sci-fi-weapon-sound-effects...

Explosion VFX - Hardworker Studio (Rachan N.)
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/particles/war-effects-67573

Hologram VFX - Sharp Coder
https://sharpcoderblog.com/blog/create-a-hologram-effect-in-unity-3d

Control Mapping Code - Guavaman Enterprises (amazing asset that I use for every project, since it makes joystick controls a breeze!)
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/rewired-21676

GUI Framework - Dragonetti
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/basic-menu-options-238520

Character Model - MMDrawStuff
https://twitter.com/MMdrawstuff/

Asteroid Model - Studio New Punch
https://assetstore.unity.com/publishers/11404

Spaceship Model - Me :)
https://www.deviantart.com/anarchius