https://github.com/whyboris/gravity-wars

Artillery game written in Lua with help of Love2D
https://github.com/whyboris/gravity-wars

artillery-game game love2d love2d-game lua

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Artillery game written in Lua with help of Love2D

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/whyboris/gravity-wars
• Owner: whyboris
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-04-02T00:45:55.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-04T16:25:01.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-30T17:00:42.259Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: artillery-game, game, love2d, love2d-game, lua
• Language: Lua
• Homepage:
• Size: 60.5 KB
• Stars: 17
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Gravity Wars

*Gravity Wars* is an [artillery game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game) like [_Scorched Earth_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(video_game)) or [_Worms_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_(series)) but with many planets affecting the path of the projectile.

![gravitywars](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/17264277/87047616-be62fe00-c1c8-11ea-9395-70a5d344923c.png)

## Background

_Gravity Wars_ is not my original idea. In 2007 I played a 1992 MAC version of this game with my friend and thought it was fun. From my brief correspondence with the creator (Rhys Hollow) of the version for Macintosh I learned the original game was written for Amiga (and not by him). In 2009 I learned how to code to create a clone of the game: https://yboris.dev/gravitywars

In 2015 I tried to re-create the game for the iPad using [Codea](https://codea.io/) but lost interest. I finally got around to sharing my code for it in [2019](https://codea.io/talk/discussion/9563/gravity-wars-giving-away-my-code-on-unfinished-game).

In 2020 a co-worker shared [LÖVE](https://love2d.org/) (aka _Love2D_) which, like Codea, uses the *Lua* programming language. I decided to port over my code to _LÖVE_ so as to share this fun game with more people.

The initial commit code is a very quick and dirty port of my 2015 prototype code, which in turn is a quick and dirty port of my 2009 self-taught code. In subsequent commits I improved the code somewhat, but I wouldn't say the current codebase is a good example of how to code well.

## Development

1. Install [LÖVE](https://love2d.org/) (game confirmed to work with v11.3)

2. In your terminal run `love .`

## License

Please feel free to use this code (in full or in part) however you'd like, under the permissive _MIT_ license.

Thank you to Manchson for the _MIT_ licensed [`basis33.ttf`](https://github.com/Manchson/basis33) font.