Be thrilled by this high fidelity reproduction of Atari's 1979 classic, Asteroids!
This is a tidied up version of an Asteroids clone that I wrote over the course of several weekends, as a way to procrastinate while studying for exams. The aim was to get the game running quickly, taking a 'less-is-more' approach. Graphics were implemented using legacy OpenGL, while window management, audio and input were all handled by SDL.
This project has also been ported to the web using Emscripten, which I wrote about in this blog post, and later to the venerable Nintendo 64. The code for the N64 port can be found here.
A playable demo can be found here.
If you want to try the N64 version (using either an emulator or a flash-cast such as the Everdrive 64) you can download the ROM here.
- SDL2
- SDL_Mixer2
- CMake
- Emscripten (for web builds)
The project currently depends on SDL2 and SDL2_mixer, and builds are handled by CMake. Once those dependencies are installed (e.g. using Homebrew or apt), native macOS and Linux builds are relatively simple:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
The project's CMake configuration can also be used to generate Visual Studio project files. However, you will need to extract the archives in thirdparty before you can do this.
Once those archives have been extracted, CMake GUI should be able to generate a VS solution using the default configuration.
The project can also be compiled to Javascript using Emscripten.
mkdir embuild
cd embuild
emcmake cmake ..
emmake make
emrun asteroids.html
Emscripten builds are only supported on Linux and macOS systems.
This code has been released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.
Game assets are under copyright by Atari.
The graphics and audio that have been reproduced here are all used in good faith. The clone is intentionally incomplete, so as to not detract from the value of any Atari releases of the game.