Space Game
This was a simple pygame project that I made with a partner for our Uni's Game Jam. We were given 2 weeks to come up with a game to present. We wanted to choose a simple and fun arcade-style game so we decided on this space theme.
This project is made in python using pygame. To run it, make sure pygame is installed and then run main.py
On the home screen, the user has the option to choose a rocketship.
- The user can control the rocket using the arrow keys
- The rocket must avoid asteroids and can pick up power ups/downs.
- Each time the rocket passes a planet, they are passing a checkpoint.
- When the player dies they can choose to start again at earth (checkpoint 1) or to continue from the last passed planet/checkpoint
The user's score is the number of meters they travel before dying. As a player flies higher, their speed increases.
The toughest part of this project was coming up with an idea for a game. I have some experience in programming games however they have usually been clones or based on another game. It definetely took a lot of time and discussion before we settled on even the general concept of the game. Once we had a rough idea, we had quite a lot of ideas between us for possible features. This was one of my first times properly working together with someone on a whole project and it was a great experience to be able to discuss and design ideas with another programmer.
We came up with a few aspirational ideas of features which we didn't have time for in the 2 weeks period:
- Player can collect stars during gameplay and then buy rockets with it on the home screen
- Add a little animation of the rocket flying up and landing on a planet as a break at each checkpoint, rather than seeing it the planets in the background and continuously flying.
- Add missiles that can be bought or as powerups that the player can shoot to destroy an asteroid ahead.