Steve Forde // Space Shooter Prototype

Ramblings & Stuff

RT @idSoftware: Happy 20th, Wolf 3D!
May 6, 2012 - Twitter
Hike up Mount Monadnock
Apr 29, 2012 - Steve Forde
Saxophones should be banned from participating in call-center hold music. At least until they start recording the music at > 2Kbps.
Apr 21, 2012 - Twitter

cairn • |ke(ə)rn| • noun a stack of stones that provides a visible marker of a trail's location through areas that are devoid of trees.

Space Shooter Prototype

A top-down space shooter. Written in C# using Microsoft XNA Game Studio. Started in January 2011.

Current features:

Basic flight controls
Support for split-screen multiplayer
Can spawn enemy waves that have basic seek and destroy AI.
Collect dropped resources from enemeies
Particle emitters
Radar on player’s HUD

Original idea:

An action/strategy game similar to Star Reach (aka Space Federation). Game would be split-screen player vs player, building units and capturing enemy planets.

What’s changed since:

Creating an AI player for what would essentially be a RTS of sort seemed to be out of scope with the amount of time I have to work on it. So instead, changed the design to be a co-op wave-based survival game.