drawat123 / asteroids

CPPND: Capstone Asteroid Game

Asteroid is a classic 2D space shooting video game, which consists of a player that shoots bullets and destroys enemies. Enemies can also destroy the player by shooting bullets.

The keyboard controls for the paddle are as follows:

• 'arrow keys': moving player up/down/forward/right
• 'left control': shoots bullet
• 'spacebar': starts game for the fist time or restarts the game

High score of the player is stored.

Rubric requirements

1. Loops, Functions, I/O

   • The project accepts user input and processes the input (see Controller::HandleInput).

2. Object Oriented Programming

   • The project uses Object Oriented Programming techniques.
   • Classes use appropriate access specifiers for class members.
   • Class constructors utilize member initialization lists.

3. Memory Management

   • The project follows the Rule of 5 (see Entity class).
   • The project uses smart pointers instead of raw pointers (See Game class).

4. Concurrency

   • The project uses multithreading (see Game::Run).
   • A mutex or lock is used in the project (see Game::calcFrameRate).

Acknowledgement

This project is based on the starter repo for the Capstone project in the Udacity C++ Nanodegree Program.