Two ships duel in a gravity field. Gravity doesn't affect the ships themselves (which have spanking new anti-gravity devices), but it affects missiles launced by the ships.
You can play against the computer, or two players can play with one keyboard. There is also a Gravity Wars mode, where the two ships do not move, and the players repeatedly specify the direction and velocity of their missiles.
Web page: https://mg.pov.lt/pyspacewar
Bug tracker: https://github.com/mgedmin/pyspacewar/issues
Requirements:
- Python (https://www.python.org/), at least version 3.7
- PyGame (https://www.pygame.org/)
Just run 'pyspacewar' and play. There is no need to build or install anything (although if you wish to do so, you can use the traditional 'python setup.py install').
LEFT, RIGHT - rotate UP - accelerate in the direction you're facing DOWN - accelerate in the opposite direction RCTRL - launch a missile RALT - brake (lose 5% speed) 1 - enable/disable computer control
A, D - rotate W - accelerate in the direction you're facing S - accelerate in the opposite direction LCTRL - launch a missile LALT - brake (lose 5% speed) 2 - enable/disable computer control
F1 - help ESC - escape to menu (pauses current game) PAUSE - pause the game O - hide/show missile orbits F, ALT+ENTER - toggle full-screen mode +, - - zoom in/out mouse wheel - zoom in/out left click - escape to menu (pauses current game) right drag - drag the viewport around
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PySpaceWar was written by Marius Gedminas <marius@pov.lt>. It is released under the GNU General Public Licence (see the file named LICENSE).
Ignas Mikalajūnas <ignas@pov.lt> contributed the computer AI code.
The planet images were borrowed from IGE - Outer Space, an open-source on-line strategy game (https://www.ospace.net/).
The background image is a darkened version of a public domain Hubble Space Telescope picture of the NGC 3949 galaxy, downloaded from http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2004/25/
Icons were contributed by Jakub Szypulka and licenced under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 licence. See https://cubestuff.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/pyspacewar-goes-tango