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ASTEROIDS
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Last week, at work, we joked about creating an Asteroids clone where every
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asteroid had a bug number in it, as a bit of a joke. (Ha ha, every bug you
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kill spawns two more!)
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I was bored this afternoon, so here's a port of Asteroids to JS/Canvas.
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Now all I need to do is hook in the bug numbers.
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Gameplay
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You're the triangle in the middle. You want to destroy the circles. You have
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a gun (spacebar), some thrusters to turn (left and right arrow keys) and an
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engine (up arrow key).
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Remember, it's kill or be killed out there.
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Rights
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The name *Asteroids* is, as far as I know, still property of Atari. I mean no
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ill-will towards Atari by releasing this code. Frankly, it's a poor
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substitute for anything resembling a real game. I just wanted to see if I
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could do it.
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If anyone from Atari asks, I will gladly rename and/or remove this code. But
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since there are so many *Asteroids* clones as it is, and the original was
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released in 1979, and it was kind of a copy of *Spacewar!*, I doubt they'll
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mind too much.
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Strikes me as funny...
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The original *Spacewar!*, one of the earliest (if not the original) computer
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games, took `200 hours to code <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!>`_.
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This probably took me 6.
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I am so glad we've moved past the PDP-1.
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