saucer
simple multithreaded terminal game
To run, open terminal, cd to source file directory and type ‘make’
User Interface
The controls for the game are as follows:
Pressing ‘0’ moves the launch site right and pressing ‘9’ moves the launch site left Pressing the spacebar fires a rocket from the launch site. The player starts with 25 rockets and the goal is not to allow 6 saucers escape When 6 saucers escape of the player runs out of rockets, the game ends. A ‘game over’ screen appears and the users score is displayed at the bottom
Additional functionality for better gameplay The average speed of the saucers increases as the player scores more. Also, the rate at which saucers spawn increases as the players gets higher scores