Kessler Syndrome

An arcade game made for #Trijam.

An Asteroids clone with added orbital mechanics! Pilot your ship around a planet to shoot asteroids that can also collide and break up on their own. Stop them from crashing on the planet below - and, of course, on you. 

"Kessler syndrome" is the name of the hypothetical process of orbiting debris starting a chain reaction - breaking up into more and more fragments, causing a cascade effect. This game aims to reproduce that effect (either to your advantage, or to make things harder) by combining the classic mechanics of Asteroids with 2D orbits.

Controls:

- Move around with arrows or W, A, S, D

- Fire with Enter/Space/Z (also used to restart after a Game Over)

Triple #Trijam Themes:

"Novel Twist on Classic Game" and "Chain Reaction".

Diversifiers:

- Make a game that can be understood regardless of what language the player speaks!

[others pending for the next two builds...]

Note: some of the code and formulas handling orbital mechanics was pre-existing for a past prototype of mine. Everything else has been done during the Jam.