pygame_rockets

A multiplayer "asteroids"-derived game written using pygame. I wrote this a couple of years ago when I was doing some Python scripting at work to help get more familiar with the language.

It seemed like something I should clean up a little and put on github so here it is.

Dependencies:

• Python 2.7 (might work with an earlier version; but I tested with 2.7)
• pygame 1.9.1
• PyOpenGL 3.1.0

Usage:

pygame_rockets.py -h | [-f] [-S] [-b] [-s] [-p] [-t] [-o] [-a <number of asteroids>] [-1 arrows|wads|joystick] [-2 arrows|wads|joystick]

-h   this message
-f   fullscreen
-S   disable open gl shaders
-b   draw bounding boxes
-s   suppress drawing starfield
-p   suppress drawing planets
-t   draw toon shading outlines
-o   one player only
-a   initial number of asteroids (defaults to 1)
-1   controls for player one (defaults to arrow keys/spacebar)
-2   controls for player two (defaults to WADS keys/left ctrl)

Controls:

arrow keys:

• Rotate Left: left arrow
• Rotate Right: right arrow
• Thrust: up arrow
• Tractor beam: down arrow
• Fire: spacebar

WADS keys:

• Rotate Left: a
• Rotate Right: d
• Thrust: w
• Tractor beam: s
• Fire: left control

Joystick:

• Rotate Left: joystick left
• Rotate Right: joystick right
• Thrust: joystick up
• Tractor beam: 2nd stick (I wrote this using a gamepad with two analogue sticks)
• Fire: fire button

TODOs:

• when running fullscreen, the game won't detect when you're trying to quit (escape), and you have to kill the process
• rendering is pretty slow. on a beefy video card it works ok, but the frame rate really drops on anything else. I'm sure the opengl code could be tightened up quite a bit. In the meantime, it helps to suppress drawing the planets in the background.
• the joystick assumes a gamepad with two analogue sticks. should probably account for regular 2-axis joysticks
• the tractor beam doesn't do anything. but at least it looks cool
• asteroid/ship collision detection isn't too great
• need to add points/levels or some other sort of goal :)