README.md

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
• Credits
• 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.

Credits

The game is a fork of the video instructions given by KidsCanCode. I have made several additional enhancements to it. Do check out their Channel!

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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