As part of my education at Isart Digital Montreal, we studied the C programming language for one month. By the end, we were required to reproduce the famous 1978 Space Invaders. The deadline was 4 days.

• Use C programming language
• Use the SDL2 library for display.
• The player should able to move his ship withing the screen limits.
• The player should be able to shoot projectiles.
• The player may only have one projectile at a time.
• If a player projectile hits an enemy, that enemy dies.
• Enemies bounce on screen edges and then go dowwn.
• If an enemy reaches the bottom, the player loses.
• Enemies may shoot at random if there is no enemy in front of them.
• If the player is hit 3 times, the game ends

The main project was initialy developed on Linux (since we spent the first month on Linux only). I have proted this project over to windows using Visual Studio. To run the game:

• Download the project.
• Open the SpaceInvaders.sln file.
• Change architecture from x64 to x32.
• Run and enjoy.

• Having to work with a new librarby under the preasure of a tight deadline.
• Implementation of simple collision detection.
• Triggering random events.
• Applying previous notions of the C programming language I have learned into a game is really cool.

Since the project was constrained with a tight deadline, I have adopted an agile incremental software methodology prioritazing core gameplay features. However, the game could use some improuvements:

• Menu Screen.
• Text Displaying score.
• Enemies only shift down a row if a top alive enemy hit the wall.
• Obstacles like the original Space Invaders.
• Shiled power up for the player.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me on [email protected]