shooter

Just a vertical shoot-em-up to learn C++ and SFML with.

The plan is to build the same game over and over and improve on code style and features with each iteration.

Iteration 2

This iteration is in progress

Plan

Engine

• Function for setting up initial game state and resetting for new game
• Use an enum to handle state like state::RUNNING or state::INTERMISSION
• GUI Text - Create a text generator function to tidy up the constructor
• Debug Text - On-screen in game
• Update - Break into separate functions
• Sound effects
• High Score - Save to a file
• XML Handler
• Control Handler
  • Load/Save control scheme to XML file

Enemies

• Load all XML files in the assets/enemies directory
• Sort by difficulty

Player

• Load random XML file from the assets/player directory

Features

Controls

• Movement
  • Keyboard - Arrow keys
  • Joystick 0 - D-Pad
• Firing
  • Keyboard - Space (hold for continuous fire)
  • Joystick - Button 0 (hold for continuous fire)
• Other
  • P or PAUSE to pause the game
  • ENTER to start a new game on the game-over screen

Gameplay

• Complete increasingly difficult waves of enemies (12 each wave)
• Each wave increases difficulty by shifting the weighted enemy spawn chances
• Three enemy types with different sprites, health and score
• Random enemy spawn locations and timing
• Enemy shooting - Some enemies are able to shoot, either straight down, or at the player
• Collisions - If you crash your ship into an enemy, you will destroy it and get the destroy score, but you will damage your ship. Be careful.
• Health regen - Stop shooting for a second to begin ship repairs.
• One life - You only get one ship, look after it.

Game World

• Game field is wider than the window. The camera keeps the player ship centered horizontally until the edge of the field.
• Continuously scrolling background
• Wave score and kills are shown between waves
• Game Over screen shows total score and allows you to start a new game

Build

You'll need a cpp compiler like gcc, cmake and SFML, and boost installed
cmake . to configure the build
cmake --build . to build the project
Or just build it in your IDE