Space Invaders for the Coding trainwreck!
demo: here
github : here
I’ve done this one before
When I worked at brady communications I developed a lot of the touch interfaces you might have ran into on Royal Caribbean cruise line ships. One of those interfaces was a ‘kids cafe’ internet cafe. The “Royal Caribbean SurfStation”.
Basically there is no email out in the ocean so this is a way the ships allow connection. They can collect everything and send it in bulk via satellite late at night to save costs.
For the one loading screen/game section entry points I developed a simple space invaders game in Flash. If you have Flash you can check it out on my portfolio site. but for now this one works rather well in canvas.
Again it’s a pain to deal with canvas rather than being able to attach events and actions to sprites themselves… only doing it a lot will make that easier.
Outside of that nothing really to learn here. This was more of re-establishing lessons from previous challenges. I will probably come back to visit this one again and add some decent graphics and some ‘sheilds’ like the original SI.