Astral Steroids

Godot Wild Jam 68 entry

Protect the planet by mining asteroids.

Forge upgrades for your ship and defenses.

Controls:

Arrows  : move

Shift / X :  shoot

Spacebar / Z  : tractor beam

or you can use a gamepad...

These are Astral Steroids. Blasted asteroids leave these behind. Bring these to your Star Forge to create upgrades. But beware! They explode when you shoot them. Unless... they are in your tractor beam.

Forgeable Upgrades:

Star Jet Upgrade : Increase Speed, Agility and Firing Speed

Beamer Upgrade: Increased Tractor Beam Range, Can Tractor More Steroids

Turret Mk1 Upgrade

Starforge Base Upgrade

New Starforge Ring Upgrade

Turret Mk2 Upgrade: Double Shot and Increased Firing Speed

Contributors:

Programming, Art & SFX: Londo Lanan

Music by: Vermoot --> https://linktr.ee/osteogenesis

For some reason yet unknown, the post-processing shaders don't show up at all on my Firefox, Edge or Chrome browsers. But I hear they do show up in Chromium.

Used shaders:

https://godotshaders.com/shader/crt-shader-with-realistic-blurring/

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=godot+4+pixelated+shader

Background credit:

"The Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory have produced a matched trio of images of the central region of our Milky Way. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel." by Free Public Domain Illustrations by rawpixel is licensed under CC BY 2.0 .