Spaceship Game - Shoot the Dragons!

by Cameron Thibodeaux

Description

This program is a simple game where the player controls a spaceship and tries to shoot as many enemy robot dragons as possible before losing all their health. The more dragons the player shoots down, the faster they will appear. The player will lose health if the spaceship collides with a building or a dragon, which is indicated by the spaceship flashing red. The player's health and score can be seen in the upper left corner of the screen. When the player loses all their health, the ship will crash to the ground and the game is over.

I collaborated with an ART 384 student to create the dragon model (see References).

Features

• Full Phong shading on the spaceship, dragons, and ground using directional lighting
• Mipmaps for the spaceship, buildings, and ground textures to prevent aliasing at large distances
• Collision detection between the spaceship, dragons, buildings, and lasers using axis-aligned bounding boxes
• Hierarchically modeled dragon, animated by scripting
• Health and score displayed on screen using bitmap fonts

Images

Figure 1: Shooting a dragon

Figure 2: Taking damage from a collision

Figure 3: Game Over

Figure 4: Robot dragon model created by ART 384 student Kevin Kondo

References

• The dragon model was created by ART 384 student Kevin Kondo
• I used a modified .obj file parser that was originally created by Ross Light
• Tutorial on transparency
• Tutorial on bitmap fonts

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