Inconvenient Space Rocks

oh no you are in space and there are a bunch of rocks (in space) that are being very inconvenient and are in everyone's way pls get rid of them for us k thx bye.

Developed between January 2020 - March 2020 for the CE218 Computer Games Programming module in my undergrad degree

What you will need

• Keyboard
• Mouse (optional)
• Computer that can run Java stuff (This was written in Java 8 btw)
• Speakers (optional)
• Monitor (optional, but highly recommended)

Controls

• Up key: engage thrusters on your ship (start going in the direction you are facing)
• Left key: rotate anticlockwise
• Right key: rotate clockwise
• Down key: teleport forwards in the direction you are facing
  • There will be a slight delay between teleports
  • Your velocity will be set to 0 after you teleport
• Spacebar: shoot/start game
• B: deploy bomb (if you have a bomb)
• Any button: the Any button/skip intro/skip full leaderboard/start game
• Escape: pause game, show quit prompt
• Mouse: select main menu options

How to play

• get an high score
  • Destroy asteroids to earn points
    • Destroy all asteroids to proceed to the next level
    • You get a bomb when you complete a level (up to 3 bombs)
  • Destroy enemy ships to earn points
• how to destroy stuff
  • Shoot it
  • Drop a bomb near it, and let it get caught in the explosion
  • Yeet yourself into it (not recommended)
• Super Helpful Informative Tips!
  • Don't die
    • Don't get shot at by an enemy ship
    • Don't get caught by an exploding bomb
    • Don't crash into an enemy ship or an asteroid
  • You have 3 lives
    • You earn an extra life after scoring 100 points
  • The big/medium asteroids will break into smaller asteroids
    • If they got hit
      • They break into 2 smaller asteroids
      • You get points if you hit it
    • If they didn't get hit
      • 5 smaller asteroids
      • No points for you.
  • Bombs
    • You get 1 bomb after finishing a level
    • You may only have up to 3 bombs in reserve
    • Only 1 bomb can be active at a time
    • Bombs have 2 stages
      • Countdown
        • Yellow circle, fading to orange, getting smaller
        • If it gets hit, it's destroyed. No refunds.
      • Exploding
        • Orange circle, getting bigger
        • Anything it hits is destroyed
          • Even you
    • Destroying something via bomb only gives you half the normal points
  • Invincibility
    • If your ship has a magenta overlay, congrats, you've earned some invincibility
    • Getting invincibility
      • You are invincible for 1 second at the start of every life
      • You gain a quarter of a second of invincibility after:
        • You destroy an asteroid
        • You finish a level
    • Losing invincibility
      • Wait for it to expire naturally
      • Shoot
      • Deploy a bomb
  • The game area
    • It wraps around at the edges basically
  • Collision stuff
    • basically the hitboxes match up exactly with what you see onscreen.
      • even if the object in question is wrapped around the screen.

CREDITS

• Code:
  • 11BelowStudio
    • Some stuff was written entirely for use in this
    • Other stuff was reverse-engineered from some of my previous projects
  • Some sample/template code provided by Dr. Dimitri Ognibene
  • Help with getting the images in the JAR file provided by JB Nizet on StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/a/8362018)
  • Help with getting the intro crawl into the JAR file provided by Thanks, Drew MacInnis on StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/a/20389418)
• Art:
  • 11BelowStudio
    • Made with MS Paint because thats all the university computers had lol
• Audio:
  • 11BelowStudio
    • With some additional sounds provided by a bag of Tesco roast chicken crisps
    • Recorded using my phone's sound recorder thing, exported into .wav with Audacity
• Story stuff:
  • 11BelowStudio
• Design:
  • Pretty much copied from 'Asteroids' (designed by Lyle Rains, Ed Logg, and Dominic Walsh)
  • Some of the specific design bits (such as the score stuff, look and feel, the way this version does it etc) by me

Interesting links

• Source code: https://github.com/11BelowStudio/ce218-InconvenientSpaceRocks
• itch.io page: https://11belowstudio.itch.io/inconvenient-space-rocks