This is a very basic space invaders implementation modelled on a daring and excellent livecoding talk given by Mary Rose Cook, http://vimeo.com/105955605. I thought it would be fun to 1) do it in Clojure, and 2) do it in a functional style by using the new fun-mode of quil introduced in 2.1.0.
This project requires Leiningen; you can find instructions on how to install it here: http://www.leiningen.org/
Download the project to a local directory:
git clone https://github.com/quephird/space-invaders
... move into that directory and run the following:
lein repl
Once in the Clojure REPL, issue the following:
(load-file "./src/space_invaders/core.clj")
This is a very basic game, my first actually, and so is nowhere near being a real game. So far, the only features that I've implemented are:
- A moving player not allowed to go beyond margins
- A moving patrol of baddies
- SPRITES!!!!
- Firing bullets at the baddies
- Collision detection between player bullets and baddies
- Basic scoring
- Bullets from the baddies
- A patrol that moves downward and with increasing speed
- Player bullets make PEW sound
- Invader bullets make laser sound too
- Player can die and has limited lives
- Scrolling background of stars
I am hoping to implement at least some of the following:
- Obstacles
- Levels, with increasing difficulty
- Boss levels
- Bonus ships
- Baddies that sweep down and then back up
- High score maintenance
- Background music
- Extra lives at critical scores
The fabulous quil library written in Clojure, https://github.com/quil/quil
How to do things The Functional Way, https://github.com/quil/quil/wiki/Functional-mode-(fun-mode)
The equally kewl Processing environment: http://www.processing.org/
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