Synopsis

Even though this is technically a school project, I am mostly using this as an excuse to push myself to finally develop the little game I always wanted to make and get better-ish at programming. This project is public for ease-of-access, but is not intended to be viewed by a wide audience. If a stranger does somehow stumble across this, hello, feel free to look at the source code. No guarantee it will be good. If all goes well, this will a nostalgia project in a few years.

Project structure

Finished

• Setup build process with meson
• Get a player on the screen with SDL
• Input handling for player movement (simple movement controller)
• Basic debug UI w/ text
• Vector2 based movement controller
• Persistent key input handling
• Vector drawing (prograde, lateral guides)
• Lateral-Rotational movement controller (angular velocity)
• Hold Mouse 1 for nose follow
• FPS regulation (without VSync)
• Utterly obliterate floating point worries
• Camera (zoom, pan)
• Slight inaccuracies in thruster output
• Spawning and simulating asteroids
• Debug repl
• (Basic) collisions

In Progress

• Revamped player sprites
• Thruster sprites
• SFX for common sounds (thrusters, collision, mining)
• Basic ambience streaming

Far roadmap

Engine

• (De-)Serializing data to savefiles
• Faster collisions
• Multithreading (for independent rendering/physics)

Shaders

• Shader support
• Parallax backgrounds (stars, rocks)

UI

• Animated panels (curve controllers)
• (?) Touchscreen support (for alia)
• (?) In-game debug console

Audio

• (?) In-game music player with custom music imports

How to build

1. [Have the meson build system](https://mesonbuild.com/)
2. Clone the repository
3. run `meson setup build` in the repos root to initialize the build system
4. run `meson compile -C build` to compile the project
5. run the binary in the `build` folder

How to play

Synopsis:

It’s very simple: Shoot the asteroids to gain score. Use your system’s preferred forcequit to end the program.

Controls:

• W: Forward thrust
• A: Rotate left
• D: Rotate right
• I: Lateral thrust forward
• J: Lateral thrust left
• K: Lateral thrust backward
• L: Lateral thrust right
• LEFT_ALT: Show lateral movement guides
• SPACE: Fire penetrator projectile
• +: Zoom in
• -: Zoom out

Special thanks

• …to ZHS 0x82AB1AFA45 for helping me with this project
• …to my teacher for allowing me to use something other than pygame-zero