Free Software Spaceship Shooter?

[Jastiv]

Can anyone recommend a free software spaceship shooter? Doesn't everyone make that in programming 101, where you have a spaceship and you shoot at other spaceships?

[Julius]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstroMenace

https://github.com/viewizard/astromenace

Or something more simple for learning purposes?

[dulsi]

There are several in the Fedora distribution and probably other distributions. I've updated Shippy 1984. But if you are looking for code to learn from that one would not be a good choice. Pygames and pyarcade have some examples.

[smcameron]

Word War vi might qualify. It's a side-scrolling shoot-em-up along the lines of Defender or Scramble.

[Jastiv]

I tried Word War vi, I couldn't get it to compile.

[smcameron]

I tried Word War vi, I couldn't get it to compile.

Works for me:

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scameron@wombat ~/github/wordwarvi $ make
./stamp > stamp.h
cc    -O3 -pedantic   -pthread -pedantic -W -Wall  -DWITHAUDIOSUPPORT `pkg-config --cflags portaudio-2.0` -DDATADIR=\"/usr/share/wordwarvi/\" \
   joystick.o \
   rumble.o \
   wwvi_font.o \
   ogg_to_pcm.o \
   wwviaudio.o \
   wordwarvi.c -o wordwarvi   -lm `pkg-config --libs portaudio-2.0 vorbisfile` \
   `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 gthread-2.0`
/bin/rm stamp.h


What went wrong? I'd guess missing packages, portaudio19-dev, libvorbis-dev maybe?

Edit: also, there may be native packages already pre-compiled:

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scameron@wombat ~/github/wordwarvi $ apt-cache search wordwarvi
wordwarvi - retro-styled side-scrolling shoot'em up arcade game
wordwarvi-sound - retro-styled side-scrolling shoot'em up arcade game [Sound Files]


You may be able to just "apt-get install wordwarvi wordwarvi-sound"

And I think there are rpms for fedora as well.

[Ntech]

Try "dogfight-multiplayer." The code is GPL, the art and sound is taken from endless sky and is licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0.

https://github.com/palrogg/dogfight-multiplayer (JavaScript/HTML)

Here's a screenshot:

[Wuzzy]

- Endless Sky
- Naev
- Long Night (Naev fork, but it is very hard to find nowadays)
- Pioneer

[fluffrabbit]

"Programming 101" probably doesn't have you making games as complex as Endless Sky, Pioneer, or Oolite.

XSoldier is a humble Galaga/Galaxian clone that I played for hours in high school. I'm sure in the future the X11 drawing surface will be seen as a contemporary of text-mode games. It's pretty basic, but that's part of its charm.

Someone on this forum is maintaining Project: Starfighter, which is half-way between XSoldier and Endless Sky. It feels like one of those genre mashups that hit the indie DOS scene in the early '90s.