Star Wars Asteroid Shooter

Caleb Barber - CSC 471 - Spring 2018 - Christian Eckhardt

Project Description

A Star Wars themed space shooter game where the player earns points by shooting asteroids.

Entering the Asteroid Field

Technical Features:

  • 3D Collision Physics
  • Instanced Rendering
  • Hierarchical Animation Modeling
  • Diffuse & Specular lighting
  • Texture/Sprite Animation
  • Randomization

Challenges:

  • Refining the controls
  • 3D collision detection tracking for lasers, asteroids, ship
  • Scaling asteroids to be random sizes
  • Displaying text on the screen (score counter)

Asteroid Explosion

Flying by the Star Destroyer

Other Info

Controls:

  • W - Up
  • S - Down
  • A - Left
  • D - Right
  • Space - Boost
  • Enter - Shoot
  • P - Pause

    • Gameplay:

  • 1 point for each asteroid destroyed (2000 total)
  • 3 lives, lose one life for each asteroid crash
  • Immediate Game Over if crashed into asteroid while boosting or crashed into Star Destroyer

    • Bugs

  • Controls get wonky if you fly upside down. Hold go up and to the side at the same time until you are right-side up again.
  • Weird hitbox for Star Destroyer (it's near the bridge)

    • Source

    Resources