Space Invader

A game written in Java, as a homework to CSE389

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Was intended to run in terminal, but Java does not support terminal related functions natively
So turn to JFrame

See design.txt for game object design

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How to play

In your terminal, run:

javac *.java
java Game

Select a level, hit ENTER in window and start playing

Easy Control

1. Esc or close window to stop the game (Esc is recommended)
2. W or UP to move up
3. A or LEFT to move left
4. S or DOWN to move down
5. D or RIGHT to move right
6. Space to shoot

Documentation

Generate documentation of this project by:

javadoc -d documentation *.java

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Screenshots

1. Start screen
   
2. In-game play
   
3. Terminal
   

Survive for 5 rounds and you'll see a boss fight!

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Potential Improvements

• Add inertia to enemies' movements, so that they move more fluently
• Enemy may learn to avoid the bullets
• Improve the shape and variety of enemies

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Notes

• It's never a good idea to render on a GUI-purpose interface (not optimized for speed)
• Also not a good idea to treat it as a terminal (I render the screen using text). I'm just too lazy to learn to use internal drawing components in java.awt and design new enemies.
• I knew that there are many more professional options (such as LWJGL) for game rendering, but I don't want to add additional dependencies to this project (supposed to be light-weight).