Sunday, January 10, 2016

Lunar lander revisited

Liberty BASIC comes with a nice introduction to video games called lander.bas.
  • It's a good example of a timer driven game.
  • It uses sprites which are actually generated on the fly using turtle graphics.
  • It also shows proper technique of structured programming.
So I have some ideas that I am thinking about implementing to update it and make it an even more complete video game example:
  • Add sound effects including ambient sounds, rocket motor noise and crash explosion.
  • Animate the rocket motor so you can see rocket exhaust coming out.
  • Add some flying space junk sprites that you need to avoid while trying to land.
  • Add a colored starfield in the background.
Looking forward to this!  Check back for updates!

1 comment:

Noble Bell said...

This sounds like fun. I will be checking back to see it progress.