pulsar v0.2.1

Ludum Dare #35 Game Jam Entry

Ludum Dare 35 Game Page

What is it?

A mediocre top down shooter that's like if Asteroids and a bullet-hell game both had weird cousins that liked to hang out and they got drunk one weekend and decided to make their own game.

Tools used

• CreateJS (EaselJS, PreloadJS, and SoundJS)
• Electron
• React (for non-game interface elements)
• Hapi (for nice route URLs and serving static files)
• Piskel
• bfxr

Tools built for this game jam

• Gamepadder - HTML GamePad API button mappings for various controllers
• Buttonmancer - Mapping and re-mapping of actions to specific inputs on gamepads or keyboards

Playing

You can download the current version from the current release page.

Building

1. Perform a git clone of this repo
2. cd into the pulsar directory
3. Run npm install
4. Run npm run watch in a Terminal Window
5. Run npm start in another Terminal Window

Packaging

1. Run npm run build
2. Run npm run generate
3. Run cd app
4. Run npm install
5. Run npm run package

Built application files can be found in pulsar/dist/[current version number]/pulsar-darwin-x64.