Asteroids

Playing It

https://asteroid-canvas.mcdrmtt.co/

About

This is a relatively standard version of the classic Asteroids game implemented in vanilla JavaScript with no runtime dependencies.

Development

1. Checkout the repository.
2. Run npm install to install esbuild (used to bundle the game file and run the development server).
3. Run using npm start.
4. Open http://localhost:8000
5. You can now modify the game code while it is running. It uses a custom HMR (hot-module reloading) system that allows any game file (except platform.mjs) to be modified while the game is running, without losing the game state.
6. THe game state is exposed in the console as window._gameState, so you can modify it as you want while the game is running.

Todo

There are a number of improvements to make or missing features to add:

• Sound and music
• Gamepad
• Refactor the GUI code
• Bug fixes
• Game balance (difficulty, rewards, etc)
• Improve (eg move to worker to avoid browser locking up) or remove the GIF code