Boulder Blaster

A small JavaScript game made in order for me to learn a little about game making.

Click here to play it

How to play

The game is a turn based game where you play as a space ship. You’ll need to move to avoid falling boulders and shoot lasers to reshape the them. The goal is to complete a full row of boulders at the bottom as many times as possible.

Use Left/Right or A/D to moveUse Up/Down or W/D to firePress N to toggle Noise

Code

The code for the game, including unit tests, is available on Github. The game uses the PixiJS framework for graphics and tests are done with Jasmine.

Blog posts

The development progress has been documented with a series of blog posts. Below they are all listed in chronological order.

• To make a Game
• Getting started on a game
• First iteration
• Adding tests
• The clock is ticking
• Almost there