I wrote a Galaxian clone

[vruumllc]

https://github.com/vruumllc/RP6502-Star-Swarms

Here's a first draft of my new game, Star Swarms, which is a clone of the old game Galaxians.
It still needs work -- aliens are too dumb, for instance -- but I wanted to get it out there before I disappear for 2 weeks on vacation.
It serves as a great example of what you can do with asset management, tiles, and affine sprites on the RP6502. Enjoy!

Keys:

Left, Right arrows -- move ship
Up, Down, Space -- fire missile
P -- Pause
R -- Restart
ESC -- Quit

[WojciechGw]

any ideas ? hardware failure ?

[vruumllc]

Yes, I guess I have crammed as much as I can in the vsync loop. 8^)
I have seem this problem if I add a printf() for debugging in certain routines.

[WojciechGw]

anyway - awesome job :) thank You
have a good time on vacation :)

[vruumllc]

Thanks!

[netzerohero]

Nice job, so cool! (Thanks for your contributions! - I've been reading your graphics c-code / library, for understanding. Then distilling to the most-minimal C in an attempt to study the assembly-code to put a single-dot on the screen via BASIC, LOL.)

[vruumllc]

Great! That’s what I would do too. Good luck

[n9jcv]

WOW @vruumllc
I dowoaded and ran this. It must have been a huge effort. Thank You for sharing. I hope at some point to be able to use the source for my education about this.

[vruumllc]

You are so kind. Thanks!

[michaelsarr]

very cool, gracias

[vruumllc]

I finally added Star Swarms to my GitHub repositories, and have updated the first message in this thread accordingly.