An SDL game based on the classic Asteroids arcade game. Defeat enemy spaceships and blast away dangerous asteroids to advance to the next level. Levels are defined in data/levels.txt.

• Press SPACE to fire lasers.
• Press ↑ to accelerate.
• Press ← to turn left.
• Press → to turn right.

Completed as the capstone project of Udacity's C++ Nanodegree Program.

Credit Kenney for game artwork.

• cmake >= 3.7
  • All OSes: click here for installation instructions
• make >= 4.1 (Linux, Mac), 3.81 (Windows)
  • Linux: make is installed by default on most Linux distros
  • Mac: install Xcode command line tools to get make
  • Windows: Click here for installation instructions
• SDL2 >= 2.0
  • All installation instructions can be found here
  • Note that for Linux, an apt or apt-get installation is preferred to building from source.
• SDL2_image >= 2.0
  • All installation instructions can be found here
  • For Linux, install via sudo apt-get install libsdl2-image-dev.
• gcc/g++ >= 5.4
  • Linux: gcc / g++ is installed by default on most Linux distros
  • Mac: same deal as make - install Xcode command line tools
  • Windows: recommend using MinGW

1. Clone this repo.
2. Make a build directory in the top level directory: mkdir build && cd build
3. Compile: cmake .. && make
4. Run it: ./Asteroids.