Astro Loop (pubdeer.com)

Omg it's a Asteroids Vampire Survivors, that's such a good idea! Love seeing android apps distributed independently too. Excited to play!

The game itself looks fun!

The copy is awful. Which I suppose is expected at this point. It reads like the same Claude-ified marketing site slop we get in every third HN post. Why couldn't the author(s) spend the five minutes it would take to give this just a hint of personality? Do they think it's good enough?

Similar, last week I had AI imagine Asteroids, but as a first person shooter, play RoidBelt in the browser at: https://linsomniac.github.io/roidbelt/

I love that folks are releasing things that are privacy-first, no ads, like a gift to humanity. Thank you for this.

This is probably an F-Droid issue, but as a user, what matters for me is the end-to-end experience, and the end-to-end experience is "I can't play it":

Tried installing it from F-Droid, stuck for a while on "Waiting to start download", at some point some toast about 404 that I couldn't read as quickly as it disappeared...

At this point, I associate open source with this kind of experience, and it doesn't motivate me to act on the countless "OMG Android is locking open source out" banners I encountered during the process..

(Yes, I know that I could probably download the APK and install it manually, but I've already fiddled with this more than I want to fiddle with something that's supposed to be entertaining, not frustrating.)

Here is my alternative built with Z.ai: https://nonconfirmed.com/void-drifter/

What is the left option on the store screen. The right is sound, but what is the left