https://github.com/vgmoose/wiiu-space

[Wii U] Homebrew space shooter written with libwiiu
https://github.com/vgmoose/wiiu-space

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[Wii U] Homebrew space shooter written with libwiiu

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vgmoose/wiiu-space
• Owner: vgmoose
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-02-01T05:51:11.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-02-16T06:41:11.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-20T19:38:30.611Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: bitmap, homebrew, space-game, wii
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 7.18 MB
• Stars: 26
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: license.txt

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README

          
## Space Game

Space game is a graphical shooter game on the Wii U! This is a homebrew application from 2016. To view a more recent PC port of it, see [this repo](https://github.com/vgmoose/space-game).

![Logo](http://vgmoose.com/posts/24261201%20-%20[release]%20Space%20Game!%20(for%20Wii%20U).post/title.png)

### Credits and License

This program is licensed under [the MIT license](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT), which grants anyone permission to do pretty much whatever they want as long as the copyright notice stays intact.*

 - Programmed by [VGMoose](https://github.com/vgmoose), with features and bugfixes by [CreeperMario](https://github.com/CreeperMario), [brienj](https://github.com/xhp-creations), [Compucat](https://github.com/compucat)

 - Original codebase based on [libwiiu pong](https://github.com/wiiudev/libwiiu/tree/master/osscreenexamples/pong) by [Relys](https://github.com/Relys)

 - Music is [\~\*cruise\*\~](https://t-tb.bandcamp.com/track/cruise) by [(T-T)b](https://t-tb.bandcamp.com/)*

 - Space ship sprite by [Gungriffon Geona](http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?p=421436&sid=c7c9dc0b51eb40aa10bd77f724f45bb1#p421436)

 - Logo font by [Iconian Fonts](http://www.dafont.com/ozda.font) 

 - OSScreen-similar font by [M+ Fonts](http://mplus-fonts.osdn.jp/about-en2.html)

 - libwiiu/library: [MarioNumber1](https://github.com/MarioNumber1), [NWPlayer123](https://github.com/NWPlayer123), [dimok](https://github.com/dimok789), [Maschell](https://github.com/Maschell), [GaryOderNichts](https://github.com/GaryOderNichts), [QuarkTheAwesome](QuarkTheAwesome)

 *The song [\~\*cruise\*\~](https://t-tb.bandcamp.com/track/cruise) is available under [CC BY-NC-ND](https://ptesquad.bandcamp.com/album/pizza-planet-ep), and is excluded from the MIT licensing.

![In game](http://vgmoose.com/posts/24261201%20-%20[release]%20Space%20Game!%20(for%20Wii%20U).post/gameplay.png)

### Techniques and Info

Since it was originally designed to be executed via the .mp4 exploit in 5.5.x, there were several challenges that were imposed on its development in terms of efficiency and storage. The workarounds to these constraints are detailed in Making_of.md