Starship
Asteroids Clone | Personal Engine C++
The player controls their starship as asteroids and aliens attack in waves. Flying about the player must avoid being crushed while firing back with their lasers. After destroying an enemy, they leave behind energy that the player can use to increase their ship’s power.
Features
Starship uses acceleration-based physics
The player is bound to the world (i.e., they will bounce off the walls) while asteroids will wrap around the edges
When the player increases their energy meter, the glow around them gets larger. When the player reaches the next energy level, the glow gets smaller, but changes to a different color
The player can shoot small laser pulses, display a targeting laser, and fire a giant laser pulse
As the player’s energy color increases the ship becomes more maneuverable and the laser pulses travel more quickly
Starship has a parallax star field background
When enemies are destroyed the leave behind a debris field
C++ code to update the player, their energy and their energy level
C++ code for rendering an entities oscillating energy aura
Post-Mortem
Starship was the first game I worked on at SMU Guildhall as well as the first game I made using my personal C++ engine. This project taught us the basics of the openGL rendering pipeline and entity management.