What is 'Elroids'?

An experiment with a javascript/threeJS based cross between 'Asteroids' and 'Elite'.

Any comments gratefully recieved. There is a facebook discussion group here.

Code is open source and available on GitHiub. See manual for more details.

Controls

Based on 'BBC Elite' control set.

• '<'/'>' - Roll left/right
• 's'/'x' - Climb/dive
• 'z'/'c' - Yaw left/right
• 'space' - Thrust
• '?' - Brake ... (Relative to what???)
• 'm' - Fire (currently selected weapon). Hold down for auto-fire.
• 'p' - Pause/unpause game ... and launch game/ship control terminal

Launch the game

May take a few (60) seconds to download on the first attempt.

If you have played before new features may not work due to cached files. In this case clear your browser cache (history) and try again.

Launch game in 'beginner' (safe) mode. Low lethality. Items are labelled.

Launch standard game.

Launch standard game without sound.

For gameplay instructions ... Read 'The Game Manual'.

For technical issues, bugs and ToDos ... See 'The Developer Notes'.

Launch 'test' game (Small, populated, universe with pre-defined rock patterns).

A 'checkered', 'wrap round' box is shown so can test to flying, shooting and seeing, through it. In standard mode this is invisible and much bigger.

Credits

• Classic games 'Asteroids' and 'BBC Elite' from the 80s.
• Sound effects, believed to be royalty free*, downloaded from Pixbay. (* If you think otherwise please contact me via facebook group and I will replace them.)

I discovered, after writing this, that more recent versions of Elite also support rock mining. I have not played. So don't know how closely my model matches with theirs.