Crosshair - a free Asteroids-inspired game

Crosshair is a free Asteroids-inspired videogame I wrote in 2007.

Videogames can be interesting to work on because they combine several disciplines: software, game mechanics, interface design, art direction and production, asset pipelines, and software packaging and distribution. There were a few things in particular that I wanted investigate.

cross-platform mac/windows/unix development

physics in games -- the asteroids bounce and shatter using a 2D simulation

retro-vidoegame design

composing music with Rebirth, a Roland TR-808 emulator

cobbling together sound effects (the sound the ship makes when it fires is a recording of me going "piuuuu...")

Downloads:

Mac OS X Crosshair-v1.0-osx.zip (7.2 MB)

Windows Crosshair-v1.0-win32.zip (3.5 MB)

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