Asteroids Slot
Shoot The Rocks is a free online homage to Atari's classic 1979 arcade game, Asteroids. Asteroids is one of the earliest shoot-em-ups, and something of a genre-defining title in space shooters - along with other games of the era, like Space Invaders, obviously.
The aim of the game is to destroy all the asteroids floating (or hurtling) around the screen, whilst dodging the attacks of flying saucers, which you can also destroy for even more points.
Controls
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Keyboard controls for desktop and laptop
| Left arrow / Z | - | Rotate ship left/anticlockwise |
| Right arrow / X | - | Rotate ship right/clockwise |
| Up arrow / N | - | Thrust |
| Space / M | - | Fire (hold to shoot continuously) |
| H / B | - | Hyperspace |
| F / V | - | Flip |
| S / C | - | Shield |
| P | - | Pause game |
Tilt and touch controls for mobile and tablet
With mobile and tablet you need to rotate your device into landscape orientation in order to play (i.e., so it's like you're watching a TV show on it).
You TILT your device in order to steer the ship - Shoot The Rocks takes readings from your device's accelerometer in order to figure out where to point the ship.
To thrust and fire you TOUCH your device's screen. Rather than having buttons rendered on the screen you can touch anywhere on the LEFTHAND SIDE of the screen to THRUST, and anywhere on the RIGHTHAND SIDE of the screen to FIRE. You TOUCH the marked areas in the centre of the screen to jump through HYPERSPACE or activate your SHIELD.
Note that there is no explicit flip control on mobile or tablet since you can achieve the same effect simply by tilting your device in the opposite direction.
The following diagram illustrates these controls:
Friends and foes
| PLAYER SHIP | This is your ship. You start with three lives and can earn an extra life every time you score 10,000 points. You can use the keyboard to fly your ship, or tilt and touch controls on mobile or tablet. Have a look in the previous section for a full description of the controls. You also have a hyperspace ability, which will randomly materialise your ship somewhere else on the screen when you use it. In theory it's a good way to get out of trouble fast but, honestly, it's just as likely to get you killed as to save your ass. Your ship comes equipped with a shield, which can protect you from harm for a few seconds. Don't use it too much though, or you'll deplete your energy and destroy your ship. Finally, on desktop or laptop anyway, you have the ability to do a 180. That's right: you can flip your ship round to face the opposite direction with a single keystroke. There's no equivalent on mobile or tablet because with these you can flip your ship round just by tilting your device in the opposite direction so there's no need for it. |
| ASTEROID | These guys are the main enemy in the game. They're passive, and don't shoot back, but they're more than enough to cause plenty of trouble on their own. They come in three sizes: large, medium, and small. They all start off large but, as you shoot them, they split into smaller asteroids, until eventually they're destroyed. When they split the smaller asteroids can shoot off in unpredictable directions so it's best not to get too close when shooting larger asteroids. In both versions of the game the number of asteroids at the start of each level increases gradually as you move to higher levels. They also move faster. After the first couple of levels in the standard game (but not the classic mode), some asteroids will take more than one hit to split or destroy. You'll be able to tell because they'll be a different colour to standard asteroids. When these harder to kill asteroids do split they give birth to smaller asteroids that are also harder to kill, so watch out. The proportion of asteroids requiring multiple hits to kill will increase as the game goes on. |
| LARGE FLYING SAUCER | No asteroids game is complete without the presence of flying saucers. This bad boy flies across the screen and shoots at you. Fortunately, it's fairly slow moving (at least on lower levels) and, being large, is relatively easy to hit. Navigation also isn't their strong point and they'll often collide with asteroids and destroy themselves. When I say it shoots at you, what I really mean is it shoots. If you happen to be in the way of one of those shots, so much the better, but it doesn't really bother with aiming until you've got further into the game. In the modern game variant these will occasionaly drop power-ups when destroyed: the classic/retro game doesn't have power-ups. |
| SMALL FLYING SAUCER | This is the sort of stunted evil twin of the large flying saucer. Like its more girthsome sibling, it flies across the screen and shoots at you, only this one really does shoot at you quite accurately, rather than at random. It also moves a lot faster and is harder to destroy on account of being smaller. Again, these guys aren't the best when it comes to spatial awareness and, like the large flying saucers, will often collide with other objects and destroy themselves. In the modern game variant there is an up side to these little terrors: like their larger brethren they sometimes drop power-ups when destroyed, so keep your eyes peeled and your wits about you. |
| BLACK HOLE | Not something I've seen implemented this way in an asteroids game before, and unapologetically inspired by the star in Spacewar! - arguably the first real video game - these suckers drift across the screen exerting a gravitational pull on every object on the screen. They come in three sizes: small, medium, and large, with the large being the most hazardous. Unlike real black holes they won't destroy your ship, or any other object, directly, but they do suck everything towards them, which makes controlling your ship harder, and increases the chance of you colliding with something that will destroy. The large black hole in particular is to be avoided, since it's strong enough to capture your ship for as long as it's on screen, which makes you a sitting target for all the other debris it sucks in. You do have one advantage against black holes, which is that your ship is fitted with inertial stabilisers, meaning that when it's still, it'll tend to stay still. These do only work so well though, and eventually you'll find yourself sucked towards the black hole if you're too close to it. Other powered craft also have this advantage. Both flying saucers and activated satellites also have inertial stabilisers, although those on the satellites are quite weak so they are more prone to getting sucked into black holes than either your ship or the flying saucers. Black holes only appear in the modern game variant, not the retro/classic game variant. |
| SATELLITE | Satellites drift passively around in space until they are activated. Activation happens either when they are shot, by you or by one of the flying saucers, or when they collide with an object, such as an asteroid, a flying saucer, or even your ship. Once activated they split into three smaller satellites which actively chase your ship, and generally move a bit faster, so you'll want to make sure you keep your distance. The smaller satellites also split when they're shot, this time into two very small and fast moving satellites that can quickly surround and destroy your ship if you don't keep your wits about you. These are very much worth destroying though because, as well as yielding at least 200 points (multiplied by the number of hits it took to destroy them), in the modern game variant they sometimes drop power-ups. |
| POWER-UP | Something else not common in most asteroids games are power-ups, though they have appeared in some, such as Blasteroids. In Shoot The Rocks they are sometimes dropped when you destroy flying saucers or small satellites by shooting them. They are never dropped when asteroids are destroyed, nor are they dropped if flying saucers or satellites are destroyed by collisions with other objects, or if they're shot by other flying saucers. In Shoot The Rocks, power-ups exclusively upgrade your firepower. They will either increase your rate of fire, increase the number of shots you fire at once (multiple shots are fired in a spread pattern), or both. Your normal rate of fire is 720 rounds per minute, but power-ups can take this up to 3600 rounds per minute for short periods of time. In addition they can allow you to fire up to 5 shots simultaneously, which means you'll be putting out 18000 rounds per minute. This is a truly devastating amount of firepower that can put paid to even the most devastating asteroid and alien onslaughts. Worth pointing out that top-end power-ups are uncommon though, so grab what you can, when you can. |
Scoring
Like almost any other asteroids game, scoring in Shoot The Rocks is fairly straightforward. There is one difference that you won't find in most other versions of Asteroids, which is that a multiplier is applied to the score based on how many shots it took to destroy whatever you just killed.
For example, large asteroids are usually worth 20 points, but if it took 2 shots to destroy the asteroid rather than the usual 1, a multipler of 2 would be applied. This would mean that in this case destroying the large asteroid would net you 40 points.
Pretty straightforward, right?
The table below details the base scores for all objects in Shoot The Rocks, which follow the lead of both the original Asteroids, and Asteroids Deluxe. See this video to get a look at the score table on an original Asteroids Deluxe arcade machine.
| LARGE ASTEROID | 20 points |
| MEDIUM ASTEROID | 50 points |
| SMALL ASTEROID | 100 points |
| LARGE FLYING SAUCER | 200 points |
| SMALL FLYING SAUCER | 1000 points |
| LARGE SATELLITE | 50 points |
| MEDIUM SATELLITE | 100 points |
| SMALL SATELLITE | 200 points |
More information
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Game Overview:
Asteroids slot is a 5 reel, 720 ways video slot. It contains 3 bonus features –
- Expanding Wilds.
- Sticky Wilds.
- Free Spins.
The game’s 5 reel layout is compiled out of a changing number of columns – 3/4/5/4/3
The game theme is based on the popular Atari® based game title “Asteroids©”.
Playing the Game:
- Choose the amount you’d like to bet with.
- Control the bet amount by clicking on the “+” and “-” button.
- When you’re ready to set the reels in motion, click on the “Spin” button on the side of the screen.
- Your winnings are automatically added to your account balance! You can see your Total Win displayed on the lower part of the screen after each spin.
Round can also be initiated using the Auto-bet.
Game & Feature rules:
- Winning combinations and payouts are calculated according the games ‘Paytable’, which can be accessed through the ‘Info’ button.
- All prize multipliers are multiplied by the bet amount divided by 50 coins(‘Total bet” divided by “50 Coins’).
PAYOUT RULES IN MAIN GAME:
- Winning combination are counted both from left-to-right and from right-to-left on adjacent reels.
- Winning formula for a single way is (BET x Symbol multiplier) / 50 Coins.
- Winning in currency is equal to the prize multiplier multiplied by the bet amount divided by 50 Coins.
- Only the highest win per way is paid.
- Simultaneous wins on different ways are added up.
PAYOUT RULES IN FREE GAMES:
- Free Games are played at the same bet configurations as the round that activated the Free Spins.
- Free Games wins are added to any initial bet wins.
- Additional Free Games won are automatically added to the current Free
- Spins.
- At the end of Free Games, the game returns to the round that activated Free spins.
How to read the pay table:
The Paytable in a video slots game acts like a key, explaining the value of each symbol in the game. Each symbol is assigned a certain number value. The win amount is determined based on the number that the Paytable shows for a certain symbol, multiplied by the way bet value that the player determines before spinning the reels.
You can reference the Paytable and use the following formula to calculate what your win will be:Bet Value set by player” / “50 Coins” X “the number the Paytable shows for total number of hits for any given symbol” = win amount.
The paytable can be accessed by clicking the paytable icon at the lower side of the screen.
Inside the game setting pages, the paytable can be accessed by clicking the paytable icon at the middle of the screen.
| PAY TABLE | Of A Kind | |||
| ID | Symbol | x3 | x4 | x5 |
| 0 | Ten | 5 | 10 | 50 |
| 1 | Jack | 5 | 10 | 50 |
| 2 | Queen | 10 | 15 | 60 |
| 3 | King | 10 | 15 | 60 |
| 4 | Ace | 15 | 25 | 75 |
| 5 | Satellite | 15 | 25 | 100 |
| 6 | UFO | 20 | 50 | 200 |
| 7 | Ray Gun | 20 | 75 | 250 |
| 8 | Rocket | 25 | 100 | 300 |
| 9 | Asteroids | 50 | 150 | 600 |
Game Controls:
Desktop Controls:
- Spin/Skip – “SPIN” submits the bet and spins the reels; when a win animation is displaying clicking the “SPIN” button will skip the animation and start the next round
- Stop – Stops the reels immediately
- Balance – Display user balance.
- Bet (-/+) – Display current bet. Enable adjustment the total Bet.
- Win – Display current round win.
- Auto Bet – Enables playing the game automatically for a predetermined number of spins at the current bet configuration. See Auto-bet Chapter
- Setting– Opens the setting buttons of the game
- Unfold Setting button – unfold the game setting button
- Paytable – enables access to the game info pages, providing explanations on winning combinations, special features and additional game related information.
- Help – opens the game help pages.
- Full screen toggle – switch to full screen and back.
- Cashier – opens the cashier my account page
- Sound – enables sound volume control.
Autobet
To use the autobet, a player clicks the autobet icon next to the “SPIN” button.
Autobet – Enables playing the game automatically for a predetermined number of spins at the current bet configuration.
To set the number of automated rounds click the plus button on the right side and then select the desired number of autobet rounds.
To add limits and other options, open the setting panel using the [+] sign.
Each setting can be set to on or off using the switches.
Some limits require a numeric value that must be entered before autobet activation.
Limits without a valid numeric value will turn off once autobet is activated.
To close the setting panel click the [-] button.
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To start an autobet session, click the PLAY button.
To pause an autobet session, click the PAUSE button.
To exit the Autobet mode click the [X] button
During autobet play, the settings panel is closed
Auto-bets Limits:
- Loss limit <Numeric value>- Pauses the auto bet function (see below) when the total loss of the user so far (SUM(bet)-SUM(win)) >= <Numeric value>
- Single Win <Numeric value>- Pauses the auto bet function (see below) when a single win payout >= <Numeric value> or more.
- Win Limit-<Numeric value>- Pauses the auto bet function (see below) when the total Win of the user so far (SUM(bet)-SUM(win)) <= <Numeric value>
- Stop on win – When any single round results with a win of any size, auto-bet deactivates. Free spins count as one round, so if a main ticket didn’t win any way but did win free spins, and one of the free spins wins any amount, the round counts as a win.
- Stop on a feature – When free spins is won or a bonus game, auto bet deactivates.
- Each limit can be turned on or off by pressing on the checkbox next to it.
- To set the number of auto-bets rounds, the player picks the desired value from the top list of optional values by pressing on the desired value. The selection mark is set on the last settings.
- When a limit is reached and the Auto-bet stops, a message pops in the center of the screen reading according to the limit:
- “Loss limit reached”
- “Win limit reached”
- “Single win reached”
- “Win reached”
- “Feature reached”
Message will fade out after 5 sec or on any tapping (screen or button pressed).
Mobile Control
| Button | Image | Description |
| Spin | Play a round (=spins the reels) | |
| Stop | stop spin | |
| Skip | Skip animations | |
| Auto-bet | Opens Auto-bet settings | |
| Paytable | Opens the Paytable pages | |
| Home/Lobby | Exit game to home/lobby of host. | |
| Settings | Opens Settings page of game | |
| Bet | Display the stake for the current round. When pressed, opens the bet value drop box | |
| Balance | Display player balance | |
| WIN | Display current round total win | |
| CLOCK | Display time of current player session |
All game settings and info pages such as help and Paytable are accessed by pressing the settings icon.
Setting Auto-bet – Mobile
The player need to press the auto-bet floating icon, right above the spin icon, in order to enter the auto-bet settings page.
Auto-bet settings can also be reached through the game settings (Settings=>Auto-bet)
Figure 1Game Auto-bet screen
To exit the auto bet panel, the player can:
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- Start the auto-bet rounds by pressing “START”.
- Exit auto-bet completely by pressing the “return to game” button on the right
Auto-bet active view:
When the auto-bet is activated, the player is returned to the game view.
The spin button is replaced by a counter displaying the remaining auto-bet rounds.
The auto-bet button is changed into “Stop auto-bet” icon.
Clicking on the “stop auto-bet” or on the counter, stops the auto bet and returns to regular game mode.
Auto-bet in the UK.
Players from UK who want to use the auto-bet feature must set a loss limit and number of autobet rounds before engaging the auto-bet.
Any attempt to start auto-bet play with no valid value set in the loss limit field or the number of rounds , will be denied.
The Loss limit is on all the time and cannot be disabled.
The Loss limit is visible for UK players all the time the auto-bet panel is open.
Game settings page
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Setting sound – Ambiance Sound – enabling or disabling background music.
Setting sound –Sound effects – enabling or disabling sound effect.
Full Screen – enabling or disabling Full screen mode- this option is not available on iOS.
Generic game setting, may change from game to game or between platforms
Reality Check
The reality check is a message window informing the player of the time he spent on the current game session.
The reality check is reappearing every set time interval.
The time interval are set at the player account, on the hosting web site.
The reality check screen displays the time spent from the start of the current game session.
The player is offered three options:
- Continue – return to game.
- Go to account – opens account web page.
Quit game – exit game and return to host web site
12. General Information
Game lines:
| Game Type | Video Slot 720 Ways |
| Number Ways | 720 |
| Return to Player | 97% |