"wannabe tempest"
a tempest (80's arcade game) clone in java, and a small project for playing with git.
playable, and fairly true to the original, though not a full feature-complete clone.
game summary for those not familiar with tempest:
the player (you) has a crawler, with which you must maneuver around the front of the current level and destroy the enemies coming forward towards you, out of the center of the screen. the enemies are:
you also have a "superzapper", which is a special weapon that instantly destroys all exes (except for pods) that are on the board.
controls:
arrow keys to move, spacebar to fire, and "S" to superzap.
$ ant
$ java -jar wbtempest.jar
$ cd src
$ javac wbtempest/*
$ java wbtempest.WBTempest