{"id":287,"date":"2019-07-26T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T06:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2021-09-22T20:19:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T10:19:13","slug":"intro-to-2d-arcade-game","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/intro-to-2d-arcade-game\/","title":{"rendered":"2D Arcade Game &#8211; Star Invaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The main aim of these pages is to show how to create a simple 2D shooting arcade game similar to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freespaceinvaders.org\/\">Space Invaders<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripletsandus.com\/80s\/80s_games\/galaxian.htm\">Galaxian<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smiliegames.com\/galaga\/\">Galaga<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the arrow to expand the menu to get started on making the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a section on the design of the game, then each menu item describes how to make the game for a particular device or system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/menuscreen.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/menuscreen.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/menuscreen-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>Game &#8211; RuzInvaders Version 1.0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I started with the bare basics to make the game functional as I was learning on how to make a 2D game.  I called this game RuzInvaders initially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the moment I only have one level  with only 3 aliens, the player\u2019s ship, and I am keeping score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ruzzgames\/RuzInvaders\/tree\/master\/ruzinvadersv1\">The source code is here. <\/a>It was made using DirectX version 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Game Version 2 &#8211; Star Invaders<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The next step is to make the game more complete and create better graphics and game play. I have now named it Star Invaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ruzzgames\/RuzInvaders\/tree\/master\/Star%20Invaders\">Follow the latest code on GitHub here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main aim of these pages is to show how to create a simple 2D shooting arcade game similar to&nbsp;Space Invaders,&nbsp;Galaxian&nbsp;and&nbsp;Galaga. Click on the arrow to expand the menu to get started on making the game. There is a section on the design of the game, then each menu item describes how to make the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/intro-to-2d-arcade-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2D Arcade Game &#8211; Star Invaders<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-287","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}