ckane30691 / Qix

This is a take on Qix (pronounced "kicks"), which is an arcade game released by Taito America Corporation in 1981. The objective of Qix is to fence off, or claim, a supermajority of the playfield.

// TODO

• Fix win condition
• Fix bug where ship can leave play area while drawing
• Fix bug where track doesn't quite add/delete right
• Fix bug where enemies spawn off grid if you wait to click Start
• Add sprites and enemy types
• Add Fuse
• Fix music and menus
• Add levels
• Refactor and squash remaining bugs
• Port to phone with cordova
• Publish to app store

Qix

Play Now

This is a take on Qix (pronounced "kicks"), which is an arcade game released by Taito America Corporation in 1981. The objective of Qix is to fence off, or claim, a supermajority of the playfield.

Background & Overview

The player controls a ship that can move around the edges of the board. Holding down one of the draw buttons allows the ship to move into unclaimed territory and draw lines in an attempt to create a closed shape. If completed, the captured area (defined as the side with a smaller area) becomes filled in with a solid color and points are awarded.

A life is lost if the ship touches any uncompleted line or if the marker is touched by any of the – enemies that traverse the playfield.

Architecture & Technologies

This project will be implemented with the following technologies:

• Vanilla JS for overall structure and game logic
• Keymaster JS a micro library for defining and dispatching keyboard shortcuts in web applications
• HTML5 Canvas for DOM manipulation & rendering
• Webpack to bundle and serve various scripts

Spotted a bug?

If you find a bug, please open an issue here.

Plans for Future Versions

• Give enemies AI
• Add different enemy types
• Add powerups
• Add soundFX and music
• Add different maps
• Add scoring system
• Add leaderboards