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Functional Asteroids

Overview

A rebuilt version of my Asteroids project, but this time with code that is functional instead of object oriented.

Asteroids is built using the following tools:

• HTML canvas to draw the game
• Redux to manage the game state
• React to build all the UI that isn't in a canvas
• Babel to transpile JS and JSX
• Flow to add type checking
• Webpack for module bundling
• Aphrodite for styling in JS
• Keymaster for key press handling
• Lodash for utility functions
• ESLint for linting

New features

This version has the same features as the previous version, plus some new ones.

• The player has a limited number of bombs, which destroy every asteroid in the game.
• Instead of increasing the score multiplier with a powerup, it is now increased by hitting asteroids in quick succession.
• There are new powerups.
• The gun powerup causes the ship to temporarily shoot a three-bullet spread. Previously it would make the bullets larger and faster.
• The sound can be turned off.
• When the game ends, a new one can begin without refreshing the page.

Running locally

• Clone the repo
• npm install
• webpack
• open index.html