X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter: Attack on the Deathstar

Be a X-Wing pilot! Take a seat in the most advanced fighter of the galaxy. Fight against the evil empire! Use proton torpedo to quickly dismiss enemy forces or your 4 blasters (aiming skill required). Go through 4 epic missions, from space to Deathstar and back. Flight Manual Copyright Notice Starwars logo/music/... credits to their respective owners. Don't sue me :/ Dev Log This is a demake of the X68000 Attack of the Deathstar game, (kind of) complete with space/ground/trench missions. This version departs from the original with a less arcade/grinding gameplay. The un-minified version can be found (as usual) on my Github page (includes all 3d assets). Tie Fighters All flying NPCs are following boids behavior (seek, avoid, follow) and are really a blast to watch in pack (imho)! Baddies will try to get on your six to fry good old r2d2 :/ Proton Torpedo Proton flight path is following Proportional Navigation rules. Gives a nice interception path (and the math is cool :) 3d Engine Engine is a edge renderer (wireframe only as you certainly noticed!). It supports faces with an arbitrary number of edges to reduce visual cluter and achieve good performance. Face culling is using object-space culling, the normal.point constant is pre-calculated when model is loaded. Quaternions functions ported from ThreeJS. 3d Sound (sort of...) Sound volume is changed at runtime according to sound emitter location, using the PICO-8 "feature" that sfx can be modified without impacting currently playing sound. Note: sfx 63 is reserved for that use. Software Pipeline 3d assets are modeled in Blender, exported in sprite/map format using a Python exporter . Models are unpacked from spritesheet/map memory at startup and made available in a global table. All game data are expressed as JSON strings, supporting references to global functions. Ex: _g.update_player=function(self) self.x+=1 self.y+=0.5 end() local player=json_parse('{"x":0,"y":0,"update":"update_player"}') -- works! player:update() Mini json parser from Tyler Neylon: lua JSON parser Code is minified using picotool. Music lifted from "public" MIDI files, simplified and converted with midi2pico. Changelog 1.0: Initial public version Bug: not able to restart after gameover (will be fixed soon) 1.1: change: redone control scheme (flat turn, optional roll) change: removed boost change: laser auto lock change: difficulty curve fixed: NPC flight AI fixed: torpedo aiming 1.2: added: menu to switch view changed: turret & tie fire lead (+ random chance to miss) changed: tie fighter difficulty ramp up fixed: random hit on NPC (distance function overflow) fixed: reworked trench to keep 60 fps removed: in-game help 1.3: changed: reduced tie hit points changed: increased tie damage