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asteroid rocket

Asteroid Rocket was a game I created as part of a first year software engineering course. This was the first GUI I made, and also my first game on PC.

Download asteroid.jar
A Java 2 runtime environment (minimum 1.3.7_03) is required to run asteroid rocket.

Here are some facts about this project:

It is based on the old arcade classic asteroids.
It was written entirely in 10 days in April 2002, and has not been altered since.
A seperate polygon class was written to handle the different sizes and rotations of the asteroid.
A new algorithm was written to handle exact collisions between polygons instead of the standard Java algorithm that detected overlapping bounding boxes.
The asteroids are randomly generated so you never play the same game twice.
The star field in the background is randomly generated, but consistant between the in-game and menu screens.
I forgot to spell check, so asteroid is spelt two different ways in both the GUI and source.
This game was developed entirely on Windows, and thus different sized fonts on Linux or Mac are not handled fully. This does not affect gameplay.

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menu home gauge creator dj mixes downloads	asteroid rocket Asteroid Rocket was a game I created as part of a first year software engineering course. This was the first GUI I made, and also my first game on PC. Download asteroid.jar A Java 2 runtime environment (minimum 1.3.7_03) is required to run asteroid rocket. Here are some facts about this project: It is based on the old arcade classic asteroids. It was written entirely in 10 days in April 2002, and has not been altered since. A seperate polygon class was written to handle the different sizes and rotations of the asteroid. A new algorithm was written to handle exact collisions between polygons instead of the standard Java algorithm that detected overlapping bounding boxes. The asteroids are randomly generated so you never play the same game twice. The star field in the background is randomly generated, but consistant between the in-game and menu screens. I forgot to spell check, so asteroid is spelt two different ways in both the GUI and source. This game was developed entirely on Windows, and thus different sized fonts on Linux or Mac are not handled fully. This does not affect gameplay.