Keys:
↑ : thrust
← : rotate ship left
→ : rotate ship right
space : fire
⌘R : reset game
Ages ago, iDevGames.com held the 21 Days Later : Vectorized contest, a contest to – unsurprisingly – develop in twenty-one days a game making use of only vector graphics; I had several original concepts planned for the contest, but wasted precious time before I accepted that none of those concepts could be completed within the time-limit; instead, I decided to develop glass_castle, a clone of Star Castle (which I was introduced to by its clone, Cyclone, on the Apple Performa 460); unfortunately, I wasn’t able to complete development of glass_castle by the deadline of the contest, although I had developed three playable prototypes of increasing complexity and completeness.
Now, just a few years later than the deadline of the contest, I’m releasing the third and last of those prototypes – glass_castle {video|source code & compiled:Mac OS X}, a quick-and-dirty clone of Star Castle – to the public. Probably to the ridicule of the public. But to the public nonetheless. The major feature missing from this, the most complex and complete of those prototypes, is an increasing difficulty level: the prototype will begin playing at a predefined difficulty level, and continue playing at that predefined difficulty level no matter how high the level increases; it would be the work of maybe half an hour to implement an increasing difficulty level, but that’s half an hour I’m not willing to spend…
glass_castle was developed on an Apple iMac DV (Summer 2000) in C++ using SDL*, OpenGL, and sealfin*, compiled with Apple Xcode 1.1.
