Folks,
My daughter's class used Scratch for projects at school this year...so when I learned about it of course I had to make a space-war-type shooter to battle my kids:
http://www.scratch.mit.edu/projects/bjonesbjones/2635847
It is named Space Nexus after Google revealed that in addition to Space War being taken, Space Duel was taken, Space Combat, etc. ... hopefully "Space Nexus" is unique.
The game starts slow, but the pace picks up and more features are activated the more you play. Hint: Visit the space station early.
The project has a ton of sprites/scripts, and the online java player was really really...really slow. You will probably have to download the project. It is slightly slow on my (older) laptop, and I'd be curious how it runs on other peoples' machines. For those of you who want to dissect the code, please let me know if there are obvious ways to speed it up that I am missing. Oh, please also let me know if you can disable the Enter key so that it doesn't reset the game whenever a stray finger hits it.
Let me know what you think!
Thanks,
Brent Jones
Nonagon LLC (this is my scientific and creative consulting effort...by day I am a physicist...see project notes for more info)
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I'm surprised people still know what Space War is, that was like, circa 1976!
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LifeLaster wrote:
I'm surprised people still know what Space War is, that was like, circa 1976!
What?! Space War is historic--one of the first video games ever. It's something every computer nut should know about, like Eniac, Xerox PARC, or the Turing machine. I just looked it up on Wikipedia, and it was 1961. I got the name wrong too...it was Spacewar!...yes, with an exclamation point in the title.
If anyone is in Albuquerque, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History has a great exhibit called Startup about the history of the personal computer that includes a machine running Spacewar! It is playable, although last time I was there the joysticks were damaged and the ships were just spinning constantly and shooting at random. Not as fun.
I guess I could have been slightly less dated and compared Space Nexus to two-player competitive Asteroids...or Combat for the Atari 2600...hm, maybe I'm not helping myself here...
Say, are there any data on the distribution of ages of Scratchers? I wonder if I am statistically old...
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