This is a followup to my earlier 3D graphics test, now playable with added lasers and explosions.
Use the A button to shoot rocks, and try not to crash into them. The rocks are standing still in the first wave, but start moving in later waves. Your ship automatically flies forward.
There’s a 3D radar at the bottom of the screen that shows where the rocks are in relation to your ship.
Choose your preferred control scheme with the B button. Joystick up/down is the pitch (nose up/down) control, the other functions are selectable:
Stick yaw: joystick left/right steers your ship left/right
Stick roll: joystick left/right rolls your ship around its Z axis
Tilt roll: same as stick yaw, adds tilt accelerometer for roll control
Tilt roll/pitch: same as stick yaw, adds accelerometer pitch and roll controls
The last two are mainly intended for use on hardware with an accelerometer, for example the PyGamer. It’s a bit clunky to use them with the emulator.
You should lose a life and hear a sound effect when crashing into a rock, but you need to be very close for that to happen. We’re you having near misses, or is it not working right?
Was this on a higher wave with fast asteroids? It checks for collisions once per frame, but I think it’s possible for that to miss a collision if the ship and rock are moving towards each other fast enough, especially if the framerate is low which increases the step size. I have a step limiter, but that may not be enough.
I guess I need to dig up equations for 3D line-to-line distance to do this properly. That would also help to implement a proximity alert…
Oops, I thought I had fixed that glitch. I guess I may as well keep it as an easter egg for people who find the default progression not challenging enough
That would actually take some more tweaks to the renderer since TIE fighters aren’t convex. It would internally need to split the ship into several parts and draw them in the correct order to ensure that you don’t get glitches such as the central ball being drawn in front of the side panels.
I would like to add moving enemies that shoot back at some point, but no promises.
Wow, this is great!
Works well on the Meowbit till level 4 where it gets quite slow. Crashes at level 5.
But still amazing that it works on Hardware at all
