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Rock Rats

Updates for version 1.2.0

  • Selectable starting wave for faster-paced games
    If the starting wave is cleared, there's a bonus that makes scores are comparable with starting from wave 1. However, you get at most one extra life while skipping.
  • Official game controller support
    Rock Rats uses the standard iOS controller support now, so remapping of controls can be done from settings
  • Haptics support (on iPhone or via a game controller)
  • Weekly and daily recurring leaderboards
  • A few new achievements
  • Play area limited to at most 3:2 aspect ratio
    This makes scores more comparable between iPad and iPhone
  • Updates for iOS 15+, removal of dependence on deprecated functionality
  • A few minor tweaks and bug fixes

Description

This is a joint project with Footkick72, our first iOS game, released on the App Store as Rock Rats. Here's some game footage on YouTube:

Rock Rats game play

If you're as old as I am, you might remember when this first appeared:
Asteroids arcade game

Graphics have come a fair way since this was state-of-the-art:
Playing Asteroids

But my memories of dropping waaaaay too many quarters into one of these machines and flying around imagining that I was Duck Dodgers are lovely. They inspired this homage to a classic arcade game from my youth.

Wikipedia article on the Asteroids game

Images possibly copyright by Atari; they appear here under the fair use doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22012621
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asteroi1.png