2018 New Year Challenge: Missile Command

Kevin Hawkins · 2018-02-03T02:35:49

Missile Command Challenge To celebrate the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018 we are making this a 2-month challenge. We also hope this gives late entrants enough time to submit entries. Your challenge is to create a single player Missile Command clone. Create an exact replica or add your own modifications and improvements! From Wikipedia: Quote Missile Command is a 1980 arcade game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and licensed to Sega for European release. It was designed by Dave Theurer, who also designed Atari's vector graphics game Tempest from the same year. The 1981 Atari 2600 port of Missile Command by Rob Fulop sold over 2.5 million copies and became the third most popular cartridge for the system. Play the original Missile Command on IGN at http://my.ign.com/atari/missile-command. Game Requirements The game must have: Start screen Key to return to the start screen Score system Graphics representative and capturing the spirit of a Missile Command clone Sound effects While single player is the goal, a multiplayer mode is also acceptable Gameplay mechanics in the spirit of Missile Command - the game does not need to be an exact clone, but it does need to have Missile Command gameplay Art Requirements The game may be in 2D or 3D Duration December 1, 2017 to January 31, 2018 Submission Post your entries on this thread: Link to the executable (specify the platform) Screenshots: Create a GameDev.net Gallery Album for your Project and upload your screenshots there! Post the link in the thread and your screenshots will be automatically linked and embedded into the post. Same with YouTube or Vimeo trailers. A small post-mortem in a GameDev.net Blog, with a link posted in this thread, is encouraged, where you can share what went right, what went wrong, or just share a nifty trick Source-code link is encouraged for educational purposes Award Developers who complete the challenge in the specified time frame will receive the 2018 New Year Challenge: Missile Command medal, which will be visible in their profiles. We are working on a new system on GameDev.net where you can submit your entries. It will be made public before this Challenge is complete. Details on how to submit them will be posted here when it is available.

NubDevice

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December 12, 2017 11:00 AM

@LanceJZ Nice.

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Windows / Mac Executable : MK_LightningCommand.zip

Fairly complete this go around.

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lilington

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December 12, 2017 11:29 AM

Looks beautiful.

Endurion

5,546

December 18, 2017 08:10 PM

Here goes my entry! Right now it's more or less a straight Missile Command clone. I couldn't help it but use the trophy image as the in game missile

Per default use the mouse and keys 1, 2, 3 to fire the cannons. Protect and survive!

Download from http://www.georg-rottensteiner.de/files/GDMissileCommand.zip

Edit: Updated archive with source code (only the main game code, not the overall library code, sorry!)

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DividedByZero

1,261

December 20, 2017 08:13 AM

Awesome challenge.

Gonna give this a crack. Will be a good test of my framework I have been creating for the past few months.

Count me in!

[edit]

Had a chance to make a start today. Got some basic assets happening in game. Still haven't touched gameplay at this stage. Entire application currently weighs in at 344 Kilobytes (no audio yet).

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Started a dev blog

DividedByZero

1,261

December 21, 2017 10:04 PM

Quick question. Have I set up this blog thing correctly? I click on 'My Blogs' and it tells me I have no entries. I'm new to the blog thing.

khawk

Author

3,765

December 21, 2017 11:02 PM

54 minutes ago, lonewolff said:

Quick question. Have I set up this blog thing correctly? I click on 'My Blogs' and it tells me I have no entries. I'm new to the blog thing.

Looks like you created the blog, so that's the right first step.

But maybe you put your first entry as the blog "About"?

For your first entry you'll want to click on the "Add New Entry" button (in blue) - right above where it says "No blog entries have been created". You'll get the familiar editor to fill out the entry.

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DividedByZero

1,261

December 21, 2017 11:03 PM

Cool, thanks! I'll reshuffle some things a bit

NubDevice

2,539

December 23, 2017 01:56 PM

@Endurion Any chance of a video? It crashes on startup so no joy. Looked but who knows...VS14 runtime, my DX10.0 device, etc., dunno, no Xtream access.

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Endurion

5,546

December 23, 2017 07:43 PM

I'm on a cheap laptop the next few days, so probably hard to get a video up. Regarding the crash, I'll have to look. It's compiled with VS 2015, defaults to DX11 for the renderer, but will automatically fall back to DX9 and/or DX8 if that fails.

I'll try to see what could cause the crash. Are there any details in the crash message?

Oh, and thanks for letting me know!

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NubDevice

2,539

December 23, 2017 08:54 PM

Not a fault message, just the app will now close thing. I'm mobile now and can't give specific. When I create a dx11 device on this machine, it succeeds with feature level 10.0. It's interesting that you mention a dx8 fallback. Sounds complicated. I thought feature level only went back to dx9.x. Again, really like your art style. I suppose I should mention that I stopped upgrading visual studio at VS12 or visual studio 2013 depending on how you say it, so maybe its possible being the VC runtime.

@lonewolff you too. That background is sexy.

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