It's especially bad that they can hide behind the UI sometimes...

I preferred it without colour, half of the fun is finding the ships, like a where's wally/waldo

Second that. Colors is a requirement. Yet I loved the concept.

Yeah, the teleporting was an exceedingly annoying and un-fun mechanic. In games, players don't like when something happens without warning and are unable to react to it. This is why we have telegraphing. Dev, if you want to keep the mechanic, give it a charge up time and an indicator of the impending direction of a warp. Otherwise, funny idea for a game.

I agree that the idea that some number of teleporting ships scales past the ability to bring enough chaotic asteroids to bear on them seems like a design problem. For me, that was six ships on wave 14. The field is rapidly emptied of threats.

Space invaders but you’re the invaders would be fun. And I have to assume it’s already been done.

On a different note, Rampage was a great game where you’re the bad guy. I had a blast playing this as a kid.

I second (from another comment) the suggestion for CARRION. Think of it like those 80’s movies where an amorphous creature is captured/created and stuck in a lab. You play as the creature, trying to get out.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/

Also, not exactly playing as the bad guy but Enemy Mind is a fun tangential concept where instead of having your own ammo and life, you’re constantly possessing enemy ships and using their resources, before discarding them for the next one.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/285840/Enemy_Mind/

Coincidentally it’s now with 60% discount and it’s worth it at that price. If I recall (it’s been many years since I played it) the game was short and didn’t have a lot going for it outside the gimmick.

You likely know this but in case not: Dungeon Keeper series.

CARRION - a reverse horror game

https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/

Sim City: you're the disasters.

agree there are probably a bunch that would be fun. packman, play as a ghost and need to multi task to get all the ghosts in a spot to trap pacman

donkey kong, play as donkey and try to time barrel throws to hit mario

galaga, play as the fleet, control left right of the whole fleet and have the 3-4 different "attacks" you could send out.

In board games there's "kill doctor lucky" which is reverse cluedo/clue.

Crawl is a great one. Rouguelike where when you die you inhabit the dungeon.

The Wizard of Yendor.

Mr. Don’t? “Centimpede”

I disagree. The subtitle was half the fun for me.

"Are you not Asleep?" is the one question AI cannot answer

That was so much fun!

One of the most frustrating things about mobile gaming is that you can't just release a game, you have to commit to keeping it updated for the rest of your life or else accept that in 2-3 years nobody will be able to play it.

The number of ships increases, and then the speed, and then the accuracy with which they fire. The gravity generator seems slower to recharge, and the asteroids are slower to generate, or that may be subjective.

yes

The silly part is that you end up just looking at the radar and playing regular Asteroid anyway

That’s really cool! Neat cross of the old tank game with the wireframe graphics and asteroids!

While we're at it, I also did Tempest: https://linsomniac.github.io/teapot/

it's beautiful, well done!