A simple alien shooting game built in python3 using pygame

• Aliens have different movement types based on their colors
• Missiles kill single aliens, the ship has an unlimited supply
• Bombs kill all aliens on screen and are scarce, use them wisely
• Powerups drop periodically and give either more bombs or a shield
• The shield powerup allows the ship to collide with 1 alien and survive
• High scores are recorded in an SQLite database

Game Controls

MENUS

• w/s: move cursor
• enter/return: confirm selections or submit a high score

GAME

• w/a/s/d: move the ship
• space: shoot a missile
• b: drop a bomb

Instructions

This program requires the pygame library. You may install it like this:

python3 -m pip install pygame --user

Clone this repository to your local disk using Git, e.g.

git clone https://github.com/jpritcha3-14/shooting-game.git
cd shooting-game

Then run the shooting_game program from your terminal using Python, e.g.

python3 shooting_game.py

How To Contribute

Please, run Flake8 and, optionally, Pylint before committing changes and opening a pull request.

Acknowledgements

Game title made with textcraft.net

Music is by joshuaempyre, and was converted to an OGG file from the original WAV. It is used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License