https://github.com/rayzr522/asteroids

A fun little recreation of the classic Asteroids game in 100% vanilla JavaScript
https://github.com/rayzr522/asteroids

asteroids asteroids-game game javascript recreation vanilla-js

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A fun little recreation of the classic Asteroids game in 100% vanilla JavaScript

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rayzr522/asteroids
• Owner: rayzr522
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-12-19T11:45:20.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-22T00:07:05.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-12T03:45:01.913Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: asteroids, asteroids-game, game, javascript, recreation, vanilla-js
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://rayzr.dev/asteroids
• Size: 613 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Asteroids

> A fun little recreation of the classic Asteroids game in 100% vanilla JavaScript

### [Play it now!](https://rayzr.dev/asteroids)

I honestly just sat down and felt like making this. In total, between far more playtesting than I'd like to admit and the development itself, I spent just under 4 hours on this. All resources are 100% made by me, from audio to "graphics" (although no images are used).

While I am aware that my code is not exactly the cleanest, this was a personal exercise for myself in problem solving under time constraints. Too often I overcomplicate things to the point that they are unmanageable. In this situation, I simply decided I would keep writing more lines of code until it worked, rather than coming up with a plan and abstracting all the complicated bits away. And yes, the fact that the file is 420 lines long is very much intentional.

On a side note, I also made a fun little AI that plays the game pretty well (got a score of just above 20k once, if I remember correctly): https://gist.github.com/Rayzr522/142b8e60a87ab7c434f47370f5fb875c

Just paste it in your browser's developer console and it'll start playing :)

## Features

- Randomized asteroid shapes

- Score counter

- Effects such as explosions and screen shake

- Sound effects

- Breathtaking 4K graphics

- Ultra highly optimized performance using latest cutting edge technologies

- Did I mention the amazing graphics?

- True retro vibe with nothing but black and white on the entire web page

- Lots of tweakable settings for those of you who know how to use a dev console :)

If you have any suggestions for additions or you have an issue to report, please [create an issue report](https://github.com/Rayzr522/Asteroids/issues/new). Thanks!