So for the last two-thirds of this semester, a friend and I have been developing a video game using C# for my Object Oriented Design course. The rules were simple: Develop something using C# that practices good design concepts. We decided to create a game using the Microsoft XNA Framework.

EDIT: Before you play, install this:
XNA Redistributable Framework

It's a simple space shooter game, based off the popular game Geometry Wars. There are lots of colorful enemies, powerups, and if you have an Xbox 360 Controller, you can use that to play it! There aren't a shitton of features, but it's not supposed to be super complex. You can't really pause the game or change any settings, but that might come in future versions

Here are the controls for your keyboard:
Move - Arrows
Shoot - W A S D (directional)
Bomb - Space
If you died, Q quits and Space continues.

Here are the controls for an Xbox 360 controller:


It's more fun with the controller, because it feels more natural, but if you don't have a controller, and don't want to use the keyboard, you also can control the player using your mouse, but you must still fire using W A S D.

The song playing in the background is Pendulum - Slam.

Here are some screenshots.







Here are some links to it. All you need to do is plug in your controller if you have one, and double click the Asteroids.exe icon. Anyone having problems please let me know, and definitely let me know what you think of the game itself. Enjoy!

[[ LINK REMOVED ]]

or
Zshare - Asteroids v2.5.zip - 6.80MB

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Last edited by ziptnf on Apr-30-2009 at 23:56

Sorry mate didn't seem to work for me on Vista.

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Originally posted by Dervish Sorry mate didn't seem to work for me on Vista.

Weird. I coded AND tested everything in Windows Vista, so you shouldn't have a problem. Are there errors being given to you? Are you trying to use a controller?

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I think I may see the problem. Give me a bit and I will reupload the new files. Sorry for the bad files.

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Okay, here is the issue. Unfortunately, neither Vista nor XP offer the XNA framework on their computers standardly. You have to install a redistributable framework.

It's really small, only 7 MB, and should take seconds to install. Install this and see if that works.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&displaylang=en

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Awesome! I love video games (and am a huge fan of Geometry Wars). I'll check this out in a bit.

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Originally posted by ziptnf I probably wake up QWOPing.

I fucking love Geometry Wars 2. I'm ranked Top #400 in the world at Sequence.

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Got further still dies tho. Music starts, then crashes "the program stopped because there was a problem" lol

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Originally posted by Dervish Got further still dies tho. Music starts, then crashes "the program stopped because there was a problem" lol

How weird. Try rebooting your computer since you installed that framework. It should work, I tested it with the redistributable on my desktop computer. I developed everything on my laptop and my desktop gave me the same error that you had before, but after installing the redistributable it worked. If rebooting doesn't fix it, I'm sorry!

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The early dawn's sunbeams of knowledge flood ziptnf's brain with the reality of beta testing.

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Originally posted by Sunsnail The early dawn's sunbeams of knowledge flood ziptnf's brain with the reality of beta testing.

You seem to think that I think this game is worthy of mass production

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