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AbDUCKtion

No update on my Semester one project I'm afraid. But I do have something else to show. As an introduction into state machines we are currently making a bad clone of the classic Asteroids. Using pictures we took, we are supposed to make a small Asteroids game. You can shoot and ... Well that's it. You can shoot, the rocks explode and there you have your game.

So here is what I made

First of all, I worked on this project as much as I had to and not a single bit more. So don't expect a good game. 

I mentioned that we had to use images we took ourselves. Well among other things, I took pictures of a swan, some tires, and a van. So I thought about it for a while and I now present to you:

AbDUCKtion  

 

The players ship has been replaced by a van, the rocks have been replaced by a swan, and the projectiles are tires.

The name (as you can tell) is a truly terrible pun. Not only aren't there any ducks in the game (only swans), but the van is brutally shooting the poor animals into pieces. (Side note: When a swan gets hit by a tire, it splits up, it doesn't actually die)

So yeah. That's what I have been working on for the past week. A bad, buggy mess. (And don't even get me started on the non rotating hitboxes)

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