Space Shooter

The classic retro game recreated using Pygame and python.

Index

• Demo
  • Screenshots
• Game Features
  • Controls
• Installation
  • For Windows
  • Linux/Debian based systems
    • Option 1: Download the zipped executable file
    • Option 2: Build from source
  • For MAC OS X
• Contributing
  • Contributers
  • To-do
• Issues
• Similar
• License
• Donation

Demo

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Follow the youtube video to see how I fared on spaceShooter

Screenshots

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Game Features

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• Health bar for the space ship
• Score board to show how you are faring so far
• Power ups like
  • Shield: increases the space ships life
  • Bolt: increases the shooting capability of the ship by firing 2 to 3 bullets instead of one at time.
• Custom sounds and sprite animation for things like
  • meteorite explosion
  • bullet shoots
  • player explosion
• 3 lives per game
• Fun to play :)

Controls

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	Button
Move Left	left
Move right	right
Fire bullets	spacebar
Quit game	Esc

Installation

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For Windows

• ⬇️ Download the prebuilt zip file and unzip it.
• Run the executable named spaceShooter inside the extracted file.

Linux/Debian based systems

Option 1: Download the zipped executable file

• ⬇️ Download the latest zip file for linux
• Unzip the file

If your download was saved on the ~/Downloads folder

Press Ctrl + Alt + T to open the shell if you are on GNU/Linux based systems and type

$ unzip ~/Downloads/SpaceShooter-0.0.3.Linux.zip -d ~/Desktop
$ cd ~/Desktop
$ ## navigate to the unzipped file and change the file permissions for the executable
~/Desktop $ chmod +x spaceShooter
~/Desktop $ ./spaceShooter

This will unzip the file on your Desktop, you can replace it with the directory of your choice

NOTE : If it gives you an error, you probably don't have unzip installed in your system.

$ sudo apt-get install unzip

That should fix the error.

• Run the executable named spaceShooter

A Similar process would be followed for OS X

Option 2: Build from source

You need to have pygame installed for this option.

For FreeBSD

$ sudo pkg install devel/py-game

Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/tasdikrahman/spaceShooter.git
$ cd spaceShooter/
$ chmod +x spaceShooter.py
$ python spaceShooter.py

For Ubuntu/Debian

$ sudo apt-get install python-pygame

Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/tasdikrahman/spaceShooter.git
$ cd spaceShooter/ 
$ python spaceShooter.py

For MAC OS X

You have to build from source to get it up and running on OS X. Reason? I don't have an OS X system to build the executable! So I would love for a Pull request on that one.

Building from source will do the trick though

$ pip3 install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame

Install Pygame specific dependencies

$ brew install sdl sdl_image sdl_ttf portmidi libogg libvorbis
$ brew install sdl_mixer --with-libvorbis

Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/tasdikrahman/spaceShooter.git
$ cd spaceShooter/ 
$ python spaceShooter.py

Contributing

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This game was written in one day, so the coding standards might not be up the mark. Don't be shy to make a Pull request :)

For details, please refer the Contributing page

Contributers

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• @bardlean86 for adding the third missile powerup and the main menu

To-do

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• Add the windows executable file
• Add main menu for the game
• Fix bug which stops the background music from looping
• Add support for WAV game music file as ogg format is not playable as described in #1
• Add feature to pause to the game.
• add feature to replay the game after all players die
• Add OS X executable file as the Debian based one fails to execute on it

Issues

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You can report the bugs at the issue tracker

OR

You can tweet me if you can't get it to work. In fact, you should tweet me anyway.

Similar

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• Bullethell.py : A fork of tasdikrahman/spaceShooter which adds fancy shooting capabilities

License

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Built with ♥ by Tasdik Rahman(@tasdikrahman) under MIT License

You can find a copy of the License at http://tasdikrahman.mit-license.org/

• The images used in the game are taken from http://opengameart.org/, more particulary from the Space shooter content pack from @kenney.

License for them is in Public Domain

• The game sounds were again taken from http://opengameart.org/. The game music, Frozen Jam by tgfcoder licensed under CC-BY-3

Donation

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If you have found my little bits of software being of any use to you, do consider helping me pay my internet bills :)

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