ASCII-Invader

" Protect our galaxy by destroying those alien invaders! "
My own variation of the classic Space Invader game.

Platform

• Windows

Running

You can download the latest release from here

• How to play:
  • Run invader.exe
  • Press A or D to move left or right respectively [ Only a tap should suffice ]
  • Press Space to shoot
  • Double tap A or D to move by a certain boost
  • Press X to gain a life by sacrificing a certain amount of score

There are 5 levels in the game. After the 2nd level, a boss round should appear at the end of each level. (WARNING!) Boss bullets are undestroyable

Building from source ( Visual Studio 2017 - 2019 )

Dependencies

• PDCurses

Building

• Clone the repo and create new project in Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2017 Source

  • Take the developer command prompt of VS2017 community edition and type in set PDCURSES_SRCDIR=<PDCurses Directory Location>; in my case it was

  set PDCURSES_SRCDIR=C:\pdcurses-master 
  

  • Navigate in the command window to the directory of PDcurses/wincon (in my case C:\pdcurses-master\wincon)

  • nmake –f Makefile.vc (This is the make file for pd curses.) It will create the pdcurses.lib for our Visual Studio.

  • Now we need to incorporate the generated library into our project. So open up your project and go to project properties

    • In “VC++ Directories”, change:

      • Include directories: Add a new file-path to PDCurses installation directory, in my case it is C:\pdcurses-master.
      • Library directories: Add a new file-path to PDCurses installation library directory, in my case it is C:\pdcurses-master\wincon.

    • In C/C++:

      • In “Code Generation” tab, change “Runtime Library” to “Multithreaded Debug (/MTd)”. (Usually, it is set already)

    • In Linker:

      • In “Input” tab, add pdcurses.lib to Additional Dependencies (I initially got confused - remeber, it is the input tab of linker)

    • Click on Apply, and OK.

• Build and run project. Note: you might have to copy the assets folder to where your Visual Studio stores the compiled executable in order for the sounds to work