benekastah / asteroid

A (hopefully) cross platform asteroid game

An Asteroid Game

I wanted to learn me some OpenGL and C++, so I decided to build an asteroid game for myself. It isn't an exact copy of the Atari game. There are a handful of improvements so far:

• Atari version had difficult controls. In this version, you use the mouse to aim and shoot, and WASD or the arrow keys to move. The direction of your motion doesn't depend on where you're aiming.
• I didn't make the Atari game, but I did make this one.

I got started with the really nice Glitter project, which is a boilerplate for OpenGL projects. I've since removed unwanted dependencies.

Install

git clone --recursive [email protected]:benekastah/Asteroid.git
cd Asteroid/Build
cmake ..  # Produces a Makefile
make
Asteroid/Asteroid  # run the game

Above describes how to build the program using a unix Makefile, but we can generate Xcode or Visual Studio projects as well:

# Mac OSX
cmake -G "Xcode" ..

# Microsoft Windows
cmake -G "Visual Studio 14" ..
cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 Win64" ..

Roadmap

Powerups

It should be easy to add a few interesting powerups. Modifying gun parameters is really simple, and changing player speed as well. A few other powerups I have in mind:

• Battering ram. For a brief period you can ram asteroids with your ship to destroy them instead of the other way around.
• Multiple bullet directions.
• Different bullet types (missiles that seek targets, mines that stay in one place and destroy asteroids on contact, etc.)

Crafting

It would be interesting if you were a space miner of sorts. You could collect raw materials from asteroids you destroy and use them to craft upgrades and powerups.

Health

Instead of dying any time you are struck by an asteroid, have the asteroid decrease your health relative to the force it hit you with. This should damage the asteroid as well.

Fuel gauge

You have a limited amount of fuel. How fast you can go depends on your engine upgrade and how much stuff you are carrying. To decrease your weight, you have to offload at a station of some kind.