spinvaders 0.0.1

posted by jack at 07:24 CET in / compute / programming / spinvaders

In my copious amounts of spare time (ha), I've recently been teaching myself both python and game programming using a fine cross-platform library called pygame. I have some results!

spinvaders is a direct descendant of the old "Space Invaders" type of game. This first public test release, version 0.0.1, is fully playable and may even be fun! The controls for the game are described at the startup screen, everything should be pretty obvious. One undocumented feature of this test version is that pressing "J" will let you jump to any level.

• spinvaders for Macintosh (OS X 10.3 or later)
• spinvaders for Windows (95/98/ME/W2K/XP)

The Mac version is in a disk image; you can copy the enclosed application and run it from wherever you like. The Windows version is a zip file containing a directory; unpack the directory wherever you like, and run it by starting "spinvaders.exe" from within the directory.

Please try it out and let me know what you think by adding a comment below.