ZigStarfight

A 2-player vector space combat game built on the zigvectorgames platform, inspired by the classic Spacewar! and the pystarfight Python game.

Two ships duel around a central star with gravity, missiles, and toroidal screen wrapping. First to score the target number of kills wins.

Controls

Player 1 (Triangle Ship — White)

• A / D: Rotate left/right
• W: Thrust
• TAB: Fire missile
• S: Hyperspace

Player 2 (Hex Ship — Pink)

• Left / Right arrows: Rotate
• Up arrow: Thrust
• Right Shift: Fire missile
• Down arrow: Hyperspace

General

• P: Pause
• R: Restart match
• F: Toggle fullscreen (platform-level)
• ESC: Quit

Features

• Central gravity star that pulls ships and bullets
• Toroidal screen wrapping (fly off one edge, appear on the other)
• Vector-drawn ships with thrust flames
• Missile combat with limited active bullets per ship (4 max)
• Ship explosions with debris particles
• Automatic respawn after destruction
• Score tracking — first to 5 kills wins
• MSAA anti-aliasing and bloom/glow post-processing (via vgame platform)
• Sound effects (shoot, thrust, explosion, tonal bleeps)

Build

Requires Zig 0.15.2 (zvm).

zig build run