Awesome

Description

This is a very basic space invaders implementation modelled on a daring and excellent livecoding talk given by Mary Rose Cook, http://vimeo.com/105955605. I thought it would be fun to 1) do it in Clojure, and 2) do it in a functional style by using the new fun-mode of quil introduced in 2.1.0.

Getting it running

This project requires Leiningen; you can find instructions on how to install it here: http://www.leiningen.org/

Download the project to a local directory:

git clone https://github.com/quephird/space-invaders

... move into that directory and run the following:

lein repl

Once in the Clojure REPL, issue the following:

(load-file "./src/space_invaders/core.clj")

Current features

This is a very basic game, my first actually, and so is nowhere near being a real game. So far, the only features that I've implemented are:

A moving player not allowed to go beyond margins
A moving patrol of baddies
SPRITES!!!!
Firing bullets at the baddies
Collision detection between player bullets and baddies
Basic scoring
Bullets from the baddies
A patrol that moves downward and with increasing speed
Player bullets make PEW sound
Invader bullets make laser sound too
Player can die and has limited lives
Scrolling background of stars

Goals

I am hoping to implement at least some of the following:

Obstacles
Levels, with increasing difficulty
Boss levels
Bonus ships
Baddies that sweep down and then back up
High score maintenance
Background music
Extra lives at critical scores

Useful links

The fabulous quil library written in Clojure, https://github.com/quil/quil

How to do things The Functional Way, https://github.com/quil/quil/wiki/Functional-mode-(fun-mode)