Asteroids Redux

A rejuvenation of the classic arcade game, made entirely in vanilla JS and HTML5 Canvas.

LIVE AT: http://haseeb-qureshi.github.io/Asteroids/

Note: HTML5 Canvas rendering has major performance issues on many versions of Firefox. Please use IE or Chrome to ensure stable performance.

Features

• Dynamic difficulty
• Sound effects
• Powerups (triple laser, total destruction, and 1-up)
• Points and ranking system
• Custom-made particle effects
• Background track from Ikaruga!

Implementation

• Extremely OO design, all objects strongly encapsulated
• Implements prototypical inheritance through surrogates (so all moving objects inherit common behavior from MovingObject class)
• Title screen stars are dynamically generated and drawn using O(n) algorithm
• Implements O(n) collision detection, measuring the radius of each collideable object with player's ship
• Particle effects generated dynamically using opacity and size throttling
• Garbage collects unused sprites and particles based on positioning and age
• Uses trigonometric functions to calculate movement physics, rotation, and ship geometry

Todo

• Invincibility on spawn