Iridium Miner

You are on a mining gig in the asteroid belt when suddenly your ship blacks out. Protect your ship from asteroids with mighty teleswitcher, tool which lets you to swap places and momentum with any object! As you're at it, don't forget to mine the asteroids for iridium as well - you're at work here, remember!

Gameplay

Use WASD to move. Alternatively touch to enable thruster (you move towards / away from the point you pressed, check what setting fits you better).

Click / double tap on object to switch places.

Strategy

When you switch places with asteroid, the target gets your momentum as well. Usually good idea is to make your trajectory be outwards from ship, then swap with asteroid coming towards to your ship.

As you get more comfortable with the mechanic, try to get asteroids collide with each other - they'll burst into pieces. Leaving junk at some radius from the ship might protect it as they slow down incoming projectiles. On the other hand, you might want to crush these fragments to gain iridium and get higher score.

Don't forget that you can also teleswitch with your ship! The action costs you 5 iridium, so use with considerance. At the end, every health point nets you 10 bonus iridium, so don't hesitate to warp the ship out when place gets too crowded.

Also, smaller fragments do not harm your ship if they don't have momentum. You can gently push them towards the ship to mine them. Be careful though not to gain too much speed! You can quickly mine a cluster of fragments by going inside it and switching places with your ship - the ship will crush the fragments, granting you quickly a lot of iridium.

You might come up with even more strategies, please share them in the comments below!

About

This game was made for ScoreSpace Jam #11. Initially a three day project, but first two days I couldn't make any progress, so it's basically made in one day.

Music by Mubsi

Space background from Nebula Background Images by Viktor