ASCII Space Destroyer

The space shooter game made of ASCII characters.

Content

Cross platform C++ source code of the game. It's a home-made open-source game, feel free to clone, modify, and propose pull requests.

Features

• Several available space ships
• Different levels with several waves (french ambiance text)
• Several save slots
• Customizable ships (just edit/add txt files in resources folder)
• 8 different weapons
• 1 fighting shield
• unlock new weapons and CPU load (number of blocs on your ship)

Technology

Libraries used :

• SDL 1.2
• SDL GFX

Related

My own website where you can find more about this game, like executables (french). Jovian Hersemeule - Projets - ASCII Space Destroyer(FR)

Installation

Ubuntu

Build

You need make and SDL1 and SDL_gfx to build this project.

Example on Ubuntu :

$ sudo apt install make g++ libsdl-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev
$ make

To execute :

$ make exec

To play

Execute the following commands to install SDL and SDL GFX :

sudo apt install libsdl1.2debian libsdl-gfx1.2-5

License

GNU GPLv3, see LICENSE.txt.