Asteroids¶ ↑

A clone of Atari’s 1979 hit, Asteroids.

TODO¶ ↑

• Add session high score in the top/center

• Add local high score list (3 initials + score)

• Add blinking engine graphic

• Add 3 asteroid breaking sounds (large is deep, medium less so, small not)

• Add flying saucer (large and small)

• Add additional Asteroids graphics (random choice on spawn)

• Perhaps move from image to primitives…

• Wait to spawn - don’t spawn into an asteroid (use a box to determine)

• Add ship explosion animation (breaking into vectors)

• Add streaking (like the classic vector arcade)

• Add pulsating projectile (much brighter than everything else, more exciting - classic arcade)

• Make projectile life distance based rather than game loop time

• Flickering engine graphic and sound

• Add right and left aligned text (score/level/etc)

• Make menus more appropriate to the original

• Fix hitbox on player’s ship - overlaps should not occur

• Add music sounds that increase in frequency to induce tension in the player

• Add command line option for screen resolution and windowed/fullscreen

Contributions¶ ↑

• Ariel H. Pillet - Refactorings, sounds, and more

• Ben Scheirman - Game programming advice, improved hitboxes, particles v2, rotation (and fixes I’ve yet to merge)

History¶ ↑

Originally created to facilitate a Gosu training at the Lone Star Ruby Conference 2010 called Ruby Intrigue (presented by Intridea). The original class can be found here: github.com/intridea/ruby_intrigue