{"id":79,"date":"2015-03-04T02:17:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T02:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2015-03-05T00:38:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T00:38:36","slug":"galactic-egg-snatchers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/past-projects-post-college\/galactic-egg-snatchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Galactic Egg Snatchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Galactic Egg Snatchers<\/i> was made as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/hobbygamedev\">HobbyGameDev<\/a> community warm-up project in April 2014, with the game released in May 2014. It is an Easter-themed Space Invaders game. Gameplay continues until the player reaches the maximum high score (unlikely), loses all Easter eggs, or loses all lives. Left and right arrow keys move the bunny, while space bar fires a missile.<\/p>\n<p>I focused on programming using C++ and <a href=\"http:\/\/sfml-dev.org\/\">SFML<\/a>. Other contributors (art, sound, etc.) may be found in the game&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jpike\/GalacticEggSnatchers\/blob\/master\/CREDITS.txt\">credits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The source code is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jpike\/GalacticEggSnatchers\">GitHub<\/a>. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/?p=16\">post-mortem code review<\/a> is available on my blog.<\/p>\n<p>The game should be playable on Windows 7 systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jacobpike.com\/games\/GalacticEggSnatchers_no_vcredist.zip\">Download Game (zip file; no VC++ redistributable included)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jacobpike.com\/games\/GalacticEggSnatchers_with_vcredist.zip\">Download Game (zip file; VC++ redistributable included)<\/a><br \/>\n<i>*<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-US\/download\/details.aspx?Id=30679\">Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable (x86)<\/a> is required. Downloads exist above for the game with and without this redistributable installer included.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/GalacticEggSnatchers_Screenshot_2014_05_03.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/GalacticEggSnatchers_Screenshot_2014_05_03.png\" alt=\"Galactic Egg Snatchers Screenshot\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galactic Egg Snatchers was made as part of a HobbyGameDev community warm-up project in April 2014, with the game released in May 2014. It is an Easter-themed Space Invaders game. Gameplay continues until the player reaches the maximum high score (unlikely), loses all Easter eggs, or loses all lives. Left and right arrow keys move &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/past-projects-post-college\/galactic-egg-snatchers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":76,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/80"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacobpike.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}