Monday 20 April 2020

Game #9 : Asteroids

Asteroids is now working (no flying saucer).

As you can see from the demo here, the collision detection isn't great. I really wanted to avoid square root calculations and can't do pixel collision so its a simple box, and because of the shapes it is fairly generous with the collision detection.

Note, running the emscripten version does occasionally require a reload ignoring cache (Ctrl+Shift+R on Firefox) . I've just had it not work on me , nothing worked apparently, but reloading it fixed it.

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