Asteroids is a top-down single player or co-op shooter that has you, the player, flying around and surviving an onslaught of rocks, and if you survive long enough, even bosses! Aim for a high score, don't lose your hearts before your friend, and maneuver around dangers and rack up that score!
Assuming you are CD'd into the correct directory, the game can be run with a simple skm dotnet run
command via the MSYS2 terminal. If you aren't CD'd into the directory, or don't know what that
means, open MSYS2, find the folder path for Asteroids, and copy it into a
cd '{path}'
command, where {path} is your copied explorer path, apostrophes included to account for file path spaces.
Main menu controls assume player 1 controls for movement, selections, and actions unless otherwise stated. At any time an ESC key input will quit the game.
Player 1 controls:
Up arrow: Move Forward
Left arrow: Rotate Left
Right Arrow: Rotate Right
Ctrl: Fire
Player 2 controls:
S/R Key: Move Forward
D Key: Rotate Left
G Key: Rotate Right
A Key: Fire
From the main Asteroids folder, navigating to /Resources/json will yield the Controls.json and the
Game_Config.json files. Controls.json houses the key mappings that Asteroids has defined (but
not necessarily ones that are in use, those are above and up-to-date as of writing).
Game_Config.json houses a few editable parameters for Asteroids:
"fullscreen": true,
"gameScale": 0.6,
"no_boarder": false,
"screen_height": 540,
"screen_width": 960
fullscreen will, as the name suggests, determine whether or not on launch the game sets itself to
fullscreen.
gameScale refers to some visual elements of Asteroids, adjusts the position and movement of
everything in the game, and should not be edited without proper editing of screen_height and
screen_width as well to ensure visual communication and fidelity. Example of base game scale and
calculations for 80% and 60% scaled versions:
Full res: 1600 x 900, game scale: 1
80% res: 1280 x 720, game scale: 0.8 → 1600*0.8 || 900*0.7
60% res: (current setting) 960 x 540, game scale: 0.6 → 1600*0.6 || 900*0.6
no_boarder will determine, if fullscreen is false, whether or not the standard Windows / OS
program border (that houses minimize, maximize, and close buttons) will be visible on the
application. This removes movement and minimization functionality of the game window, but the
application can still be quit via the escape key if necessary.