LD-47-Disasteroids
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Disasteroids is my very first attempt to make a game.
Prior to doing this I've only ever implemented Pong in Java, so, bear that in mind.
This game is built on my From-Scratch game engine called Willow, the public version is available for anyone to play around with! : https://github.com/will1996/Willow_public
Feel free to try to use it, the examples folder should get you started (sort of)
The goal of this game is first and foremost to see what Willow can do, if I can create something that works in the "engine" then maybe it's actually an engine.
The game:
Disasteroids - Asteroids but really buggy
Press Spacebar to shoot asteroids to destroy them, but be warned, the graphics system doesn't work very well, and as soon as an object is deleted the functions I use to draw stuff to the screen break entirely!
Fly around with very difficult to use controls! The ship was intended to face the mouse, but I wrote all of the coordinate transforms, so the ship instead points away from the mouse while it sits at the origin, and pretty much wherever it wants to once you leave the origin.
W accelerates the ship in the direction that it is pointing
That's all! the most fun thing to do is try to make neat patterns with the bullets on the screen. which you can do. The engine can handle really any number of bullets, so have at it.
Install instructions
Running:
Download and extract the file, you're looking for an executable called "LudumDare2020"
It will be in the top level of the directory of Windows_release, or Mac_release
System requirements:
you definitely need Vulkan installed, given that, though, it should work on windows, deployment is tough for a one person team with no idea what the hell he's doing, but the process is improving!
Install Vulkan:
https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home
Download the SDK, follow instructions on the website.
If you don't have it installed you'll get an error on launch saying
"cannot find libvulkan.dylib" on Mac, or cannot find libvulkan.dll on windows.
if you get this error, don't fret! you just need Vulkan.
I'll make an installed for LD-48!
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