u/tastygnar

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Hey all, I'm back after incorporating some helpful feedback from folks here. Zorka:Battle for the Solar Tides is a twin stick top-down arena space shooter. Test your skills in the Solo Arena, then face off in split screen in the Local PVP Arena. Online Multiplayer is not yet supported.

Here's the link: https://rosebud.ai/play/zorka-battle-for-the-solar-tides-multiplayer

Controller recommended.

Features:

• a sandbox space shooter arena with up to 8 ships
• solo or split screen heads up; no online multiplayer
• Newtonian physics provide an intuitive space flight feel
• the only way to "break" is to accelerate in an opposing direction; i.e. momentum matters
• shoot enemy ships, satellites, and space debris to earn power up capsules
• consume power up capsules to gain more guns, missiles, and more
• save or spend - better rewards cost more capsules
• lose all powerups and capsules on death and start again
• avoid asteroids, destroy them, or use them for cover in dogfights
• press Play to jump into the arena, or customize your game with the Options menu
• customize asteroid density, debris density, satellite density, starting shields, enemy aggression level, and more in the Options menu
• Enemy Ships - destroy them before they destroy you
• Asteroids - bump into one, and you're dead
• Space Debris - like an asteroid, but awards a power up capsule; hidden among the asteroids
• Satellite - a (mostly) predictable rogue satellite, awards a power up capsule;

Method:
I used RosebudAI to create most of it. I took my ideas and ran them through ChatGPT first - prompts looked like:

"I want to create a movement system for a top down space shooter where W always accelerates towards the cursor, and D always accelerates away from the cursor, A and D strafe relative to the cursor."

After drilling down in the specifics some more:

"Restate this design for implementation to be dropped into an AI game maker."

I repeated that process for every key feature: movement, gun speed, power up system, etc. For power ups i straight prompted:

"Describe the power up system from Gradius."

"Modify that system for my game."

The core prompts were created in chatgpt. Rosebud eats credits for thinking. Delivering short, concise, highly refined prompts produced great results with low compute.

Assets were also prompted in chatgpt, then dropped into rosebud. Rosebud handled the shading/color for player identities.

Happy to answer additional questions below, but really just want yall to play a bit!

https://rosebud.ai/play/wrapship-asteroids

Hey all, here's a fun little twin stick top-down shooter I whipped up. Gradius + Ateroids + Star Control = Zorka: Battle for the Solar Tides. Multiplayer isnt working yet, but im getting to it.

Controller recommended.

I used RosebudAI to create most of it. I took my ideas and ran them through ChatGPT first - prompts looked like:

"I want to create a movement system for a top down space shooter where W always accelerates towards the cursor, and D always accelerates away from the cursor, A and D strafe relative to the cursor."

After drilling down in the specifics some more:

"Restate this design for implementation to be dropped into an AI game maker."

I repeated that process for every key feature: movement, gun speed, power up system, etc. For power ups i straight prompted:

"Describe the power up system from Gradius."

"Modify that system for my game."

The core prompts were created in chatgpt. Rosebud eats credits for thinking. Delivering short, concise, highly refined prompts produced great results with low compute.

Assets were also prompted in chatgpt, then dropped into rosebud. Rosebud handled the shading/color for player identities.

Happy to answer additional questions below, but really just want yall to play a bit!

Edit: how's Monday evening? If you're interested send me a DM!

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Then came the Junk Storms. Centuries of satelite and rocket debris began raining down, forming massive storms of hurricanic metal that now ravage the Earth.

You are an Influincer in the last known human colony. Your vision of surivival must prevail. Humanity depends on you to use your Clout and channel your resources to build a future for your people.

Junk Storm is a 2-5 player competitve game with limited resources, forced cooperation, and brutal consequences where no one is garaunteed victory.

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Started making my first game in February, I know more now than I did then but I'm still just feeling my way around in the dark. But damn, this is actually fun to play! No idea what I expect from posting here but I just wanted to share I guess. Feedback or comments are (theoretically) welcomed.