• Anchit Mishra
  • UID: 3035665665
  • Username: anchit1729
• Ajayveer Singh
  • UID:3035664635
  • Username: Quacktillius

In this project, we have used the 1981 arcade game Galaga as a source of inspiration and designed a * space arcade shooter *.

The game's shooter mechanics and its arcadey style are the game's main feature, but there is also a minimalistic story-line (see Premise).

You are a combat pilot sent as part of the UN Space Exploration Team (UNSET) to the newly discovered exoplanet Astrid. However, upon arrival you quickly find out that the planet was a trap set up by Alien Demons. With all of your crew members dead, you must fight in a heroic last-stand against an endless onslaught of Demons, killing as many as you can.

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                                                   H#H

The player will control a ship at the bottom of the screen.

• Can move horizontally
• Can fire projectiles towards enemies
• Can pick up "power-ups" that grant special abilities such as increased damage, faster movement etc.
• Has 3 lives, i.e can take damage thrice without having to restart

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Enemy ships will randomly appear at the top of the screen and move downwards. Some enemies will fuse together into a chain or block (randomly), and will be harder to gun down.

• BFB (inspired by the BFG from the Doom games, it kills all enemy ships in one shot, but is one use only)
• Extra Life (lets the player respawn once more without losing progress)
• Hyperjets (makes player movements 100% faster)

Regarding the intro sequence that plays at the beginning of the game:

• It is purely for comedic purposes, and thus, should be taken in a light hearted manner.
• The first line serves not to disregard the worth of the project, calling it "mediocre", but rather to set the tone for intro
• The second line furthers this
• We are NOT saying that this is the best project. The 3rd line was purely comedic. No one was bribed, or said that.

1- Make a new Game (No need to press Enter)
2- Leaderboard (No need to press Enter, but press enter once the Leaderboard is displayed in order to return to the menu)
3- Exit (No need to press Enter)

A- Strafe left
D- Strafe right
W- Shoot
P- Exit the game (without saving)

• A glitch in the game may randomly occur that causes the enemies to stick to player projectiles. At this point, the player must pick up a BFB powerup in order to reset enemy spawns and rid himself of the curse. Alternatively, the game may be terminated by pressing P on the keyboard. Then, running make clean, make Game and finally, make run removes the glitch.
• If P is pressed to exit the game, the current score WILL NOT BE SAVED.

• For the purposes of this project, we have used the library ncurses to draw console graphics. This library was used because it makes it easier for the program to navigate to a custom coordinate and set characters, instead of drawing the screen top-down every time an update is made to the game state.
• ncurses also enables dynamic screen sizing, which ensures that the program can scale with displays of different sizes.
• The library does not need to be manually set up by the user as a prerequisite. The Makefile deals with that process.

• Once the repository has been cloned, run the command make Game in order to install the necessary library (ncurses) and set up the executable file (Game), log file (log.txt), and score save file (Leaderboard.txt).
• After installation, run make run in order to run the executable and start the game.
• The recommended size for running the game is 24 rows by 80 cols. However, the game will render and run at any window size, albeit with a reduced difficulty (since enemies take longer to reach the bottom of the screen).
• To clear up the game's executable files and text files log.txt and Leaderboard.txt, use the command make clean
• To clear up ALL of the game's files and uninstall ncurses, run the command make full_clean.