The idea is to get to the top of the map having avoided the space debris to gain a point. The bar in the middle represents the time left of the game, the player with the most points at the end of the game wins! We already have the building blocks for the player’s score as when they move off the top of the screen our member variable in the ship class score gets incremented, all we need to do is implement the bugger so we can see it!

At the moment the ship is a circle and the debris is a circle, so if the distance is less than the ships radius and the debris radius then they’re intersecting each other and thus have hit! If you get stuck go check out my GitHub repository with the solution I’ve done, see if you can do it better, I’m sure you can! The two players each control a rocket ship; the object of the game is to make it from the bottom of the screen to the top, while avoiding obstacles such as asteroids. So this is just a case of creating a new class called score, and then passing it the players current score each frame.

I’m a strong believer that each comment is an apology for writing poor code, but this is an exception . Any idea why? Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Login to, Unlock character color patterns by earning 250 points. In the update() function (this is getting called within the draw() function of sketch class, so it is getting called 60 times per second) it updates the ships current position, so checks whether it is going up/down, if so, makes it go up/down by calling the up()/down() functions. Space Race is the second arcade game created by Atari and was released in July, 1973. Trust me, it looks better on a black background haha.. Play Space Race Next blog will be released next week on Sunday 17th February at 8pm! One year on from pong came Space Race (also made by Atari). Standards: 3.OA.C.7: Fluently multiply and divide within 100. ( Log Out /  So if the debris has spawned to the right of the screen, it’ll come left, if it has spawned to the left of the screen, it’ll come right. Be the first one to write a review. So the ship class lets us keep track of the players x and y locations as well as their current score and whether they are going up isUp or down isDown. For some reason, it keeps saying that ship isnt defined. We make multiplayer educational games - free math games, free language arts games, and more for K-8 students.

Released in July 1973, Space Race was Atari's second game after "Pong".The owners/operators manuals in the Space Race cabinets were actually Atari "Pong" manuals and have the name PONG scribbled out and Space Race hand written over the top of the scribbled out Pong name. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Score is kept electronically and the … Space Race is a multiplayer math game that allows students from anywhere in the world to race against each other while practicing multiplication!

Set the imageMode() to the center so it’s more similar to the circle, as usually the reference point of the image is the top left, this set’s the reference point to the middle of the image, so we don’t need to change any of the hit detection!