🌠🌠🌠 space-shooter 🌠🌠🌠

Space shooter game by @clear-code-projects

🛠️ Getting Started

To set up and run the game:

1. Run install.sh to create a Python virtual environment and install dependencies:

   ./install.sh

2. Then launch the game using:

   ./game.sh

These scripts ensure the game runs in an isolated Python environment with all the required packages.

🚀 Try out the iterations of the game!

You can run the game as it evolved through 10 code iterations shown in this video by @clear-code-projects:

b=$(git branch --show-current); for c in $(git log --pretty=format:%h%n code/main.py | tac); do git checkout $c; python code/main.py; done; git checkout $b

This script checks out each commit that modified code/main.py, runs the game in that version, then returns to your current branch. It's a great way to watch the game take shape step by step, as explained in the video.

🎯 Challenge: Rotate the game 90° clockwise

Here’s a challenge for you: rotate the entire gameplay by 90 degrees clockwise.

1. Rotate player sprite:

   self.image = pygame.transform.rotate(self.image, -90)

   The player ship originally faced upward. Rotating by -90° turns it to the right, aligning with horizontal gameplay.

2. Change laser firing direction:

   -    Laser(laser_surf, self.rect.midtop, ...)
   +    Laser(laser_surf, self.rect.midright, ...)

   Previously, lasers fired from the top of the ship. Now, they fire from the right side.

3. Rotate laser sprite and move it rightward:

   self.image = pygame.transform.rotate(self.image, -90)
   ...
   self.rect.centerx += 400 * dt

   The laser graphic is rotated to point right, and movement is now horizontal instead of vertical.

4. Change meteor spawn direction:

   self.direction = pygame.Vector2(-1, uniform(-0.5, 0.5))

   Meteors now come from the right side of the screen and move leftward.

5. Change meteor spawn location:

   x, y = randint(WINDOW_WIDTH+100, WINDOW_WIDTH+200), randint(0, WINDOW_HEIGHT)

   Meteors spawn off-screen to the right and appear to fly in from that side.