space-invaders-lua

Building a Space Invaders game in Lua using the Love2D framework. Previously wanted to build this in rust, but then I realized that I despise rust, and I don't want to use it for anything.
I enjoy using Lua for neovim, so I decided that I would do some cool stuff with it to build a game outside of the context of neovim.

okay, now writing this after the fact. Love2D is awesome. It's so easy to just rip out a game. Great experience and very fun to build a 2D game.

TODO

Below is a general todo list that I used to keep track of what was left.
It's somewhat incomplete because I started halfway through the project, and normally I would remove it, but I like it. I tried to build this game mostly without the help of the internet or AI, so I tried to break everything down into really small steps. It was fun.

• UI

  • show score
    • Make scoreboard
    • Make scoreboard less ugly
  • Show lives
  • add bottom line

• Create a player

  • Add ability to shoot
  • Center bullet shooting from player
  • Restrict to one bullet at a time
  • Add player death animation
  • Pause everything else during death animation

• Create shot patterns

  • Straight
  • Zigzag
  • Squiggly
  • Plunger

• Create enemies

  • Add enemy death animation
  • Create octopus enemy
    • Customize to have correct behavior
  • Create crab enemy
    • Customize to have correct behavior
  • Create squid enemy
    • Customize to have correct behavior
  • Implement correct shooting behavior
  • Implement correct movement behavior
  • Create the UFO

• Create the game loop

  • create grid of enemies
  • Add enemy movement with increasing speed
  • Add rounds and ultimate end state

• Add supplementals

  • Properly manage game state
    • Correctly transition between states
    • Add start screen
    • Add game over state
    • Add game paused state
    • Add save files
    • Add high scores
    • finish scoreboard
    • make game over look nice
  • Add music and sounds