Space Invaders Challenge

Thanks to John, over the past 24 hours I have developed a working Space Invaders concept in PowerPoint. You can move your cannon left and right by hovering your mouse over the left and right arrow buttons. To shoot a laser, click on the Fire button and it will shoot a laser beam directly upward and destroy the first thing it can touch. Overall, it is a working concept of Space Invaders, sans score keeping and the Invaders shooting back at you. You may note that it can get a big laggy at times, keep in mind that PowerPoint wasn't designed as a legit game engine for these things. Enjoy!



Download Space Invaders for PPT

That was quick!!

So I played it, and I did it!

I shot down all the aliens with just one piece of my own defences shot off.

I was always rubbish at Space Invaders and this is just the right pace for me!

I don't think I could do this with triggers, but something might be possible with a static cannon and single descending alien (or maybe two).

My dream from High School come true - Space Invaders!

It's kinda working and once completed it should be a blast.

I actually started digging into how to make it happen (John's challenge) and the only way was to start learning VBA. I got some code snippets for collision detection, moving the base, etc. but the learning curve is very, very, very, very, very, VERY steep for me. Additionally what you get on the internet doesn't always work usually because the code is old and the methods have changed. Finding the cause is impossible for me. So I'll simply wait for rusnak to complete the challenge....
 ...and then enjoy the game!

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some areas to check:
- the aliens would sometimes freeze on my laptop after they decended some rows down
- they were not firing back at me
- my laser shots were invisible most of the time although would destroy parts of the aliens

Hey Jarek,
Shoot me an email, and I can send you the file with the code unlocked so you can play around with it and learn some VBA too. I'd be interested to see what you could do with this.

So... I've had a go at a non-VBA version.

Here's the game: SPACE INVADERS

Here's a screenshot:



Click on the red buttons to shoot. If you get all three aliens to disappear, you've won. If one or more of them land on your cannon and stop you shooting - you've lost.

Believe me, it can be done.

ssssssssssssa very stuttery experience xP

Insane how you're able to move the objects around though, and the laser thing... darn, the laser only destroys the first thing it touches instead of obliterating the rest of the alien's ship behind it.

Wack!