CS396 - Space Invaders

Engine used xECS by LIONant

Go to the main branch for the introduction.

Space Invaders

• Controls
  • w - Shoot
  • a - Move left
  • d - Move right
• Features
  • Highscore - Updates whenever a game ends | auto starts new game
  • Level - Enemies get faster as the level increases
  • Pixels - Game uses pixel art
  • Player - Has 3 lives | lose a life when shot | gain a life when enemy wave is defeated
  • Shields - Disintegrate by pixels
  • Enemies - Animated | Squid - 40 points | Alien - 20 points | Jellyfish - 10 points

To build

1. Go to the build directory
2. Click the GetDependencies.bat batch file
3. Wait untill it says that xECS is done
4. Go to the example project and load it, you should be able to run it at this point

Dependencies

• xCore (for the profiler tracy, and few types )
• CLUT (for the openGL example)