Android + Asteroids + multiplayer = Androideroids (video)

iPad Scrabble playable on your iPhone? Pretty neat. Desktop Asteroids playable on your Android smartphone? Rather more action-packed -- and a little less expensive to get into. Androideroids is a project of Grant Skinner and runs on Adobe's Air platform. It's an eight-player game hosted on a desktop, with each participant given a first-person smartphone view of the vast expanses of space and the hollow rocks scattered throughout it. Meanwhile, a desktop client displays an overhead perspective of the shenanigans, displaying everyone's life and score. Players can either shoot asteroids or each other, tapping on the screen to thrust and fire while tilting to turn. Honestly the move to first-person doesn't seem to have done anything to improve gameplay, but this is still one game of Asteroids we'd make room for in our games folder.

Androideroids (rough cut) from Grant Skinner on Vimeo.

[Ninbrendo Posted Jun 22nd 2010 12:06PM]

It's like an Asteroids version of Pac-Man Vs.

[jm9843 Posted Jun 22nd 2010 12:24PM]

Someone should tell them that HTML 5 is the future, not Flash. Idiots.

[jm9843 Posted Jun 22nd 2010 12:25PM]

@jm9843 - Oops, it looks like my sarcasm tag didn't make it through.

[rotarydialz Posted Jun 22nd 2010 12:31PM]

You need the classic button layout to play a proper game of asteroids. That looks like crap. Where are the u.f.o's?

[Elranzer Posted Jun 22nd 2010 12:32PM]

Android + Asteroids = Andy Asteroids?

Watch out for Psycrow.

[acme64 Posted Jun 22nd 2010 10:34PM]

this is FUCKIN AWESOME

[dyfchin Posted Jun 23rd 2010 12:35AM]

it could be played on iphone - only if steve allows it :|