Code a multiplayer shoot-em up game
Part One!
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The merciless forces of Hell have launched a deadly invasion in our region of deep space, and you have been recruited to repel this attack. Mankind is depending on you! Yes, this month we’re going to look at Star Fighter, a video game created by Francis Michael Tayag. Star Fighter has been written as a classic spaceship shoot-em up style arcade game, which is played as a single player taking on computer-generated opponents.
The video game project consists of game music, sound effects, animations, bullets shooting from the spaceship and enemy characters with associated attack patterns, not to mention a fully implemented menu system to configure game options. A player can also enter their name on a scoreboard at the end, which is saved. Many of these features will be covered in this month’s instalment. To get started we need a few things: Python, PyGame and the Star Fighter source code.
