LP's 12 Months of Games // Alien Invaders Part 2 [C++ & SFML]

Completed Independently

In part 1, I got a basic game loop going and you could shoot invaders as they descended upon you. In part 2 there's now shields, sounds and a flying saucer!

It's almost there but there's still some bugs and finishing touches such as:

• Background music. The famous "dun dun dun dun" has not been implemented as I haven't managed to recreate the sounds to a satisfactory standard and increasing the step as you destroy invaders is a task in itself as I'm not a sound engineer person.
• The arcade style surrounding and background as well as the CRT shader. A colleague showed me a different way to implement the disintegration effect using shaders so I'll be implementing that as well as messing around with some other shader effects.
• 2 Player mode
• Demo mode
• Taito Cop Easter Egg
• Different Invader shots. Right now they're all just using 1 shot and will fire every couple of seconds or so. That needs changing.
• The flying saucer is every 3 seconds which isn't correct. I haven't figured out from the assembly yet though what the actual timing mechanic is for it to appear.
• The Credit Inserted and Start Game animations haven't been created.
• The states don't really play with each other nicely
• Bugs

I'm shocked that the original developer managed to create this game in a year but not just the game; he also built the hardware that the game ran on. This is a level of engineering that I can only dream of reaching. 

Result:

It doesn't look like much but I'm quite proud of myself for sticking to a project and getting it to a somewhat finished state. That in itself is an achievement for me. I am feeling a bit burnt out on SFML though having done 5 back-to-back projects with it and I'm looking forward to a bit of Unreal and Blueprints for the next project.

This is far from over though. I have a new project now to recreate Space Invaders with as many APIs as I can. Making it that first time though is the kicker; now it's almost out of the way, I can focus on refining the code and then re-implementing it using other libraries.

Code:

https://github.com/l-paz91/AlienInvaders2/tree/main/AlienInvaders2

The code is quite honestly, awful in places lol. But I don't care. I think that's one of the hardest lessons I've learnt whilst doing this exercise; just do it and worry about how shit your code is when it's done. I do enjoy refactoring and optimising but they don't help you get a project finished.