Kipper is a 2D space shooter video game written in Java.
- Mouse1 - Fire weapon
- 1-4 - Swtich weapons
- Q - Open upgrade screen to customize weapons
- Shift - Halt ship movement
- Spacebar - Pause
Run the game with the following command:
> ant
or
> java -cp bin/release/kipper.jar kipper.Main
To create Polygon masks used for collision detection.
Open the mask tool:
> ant mtool
or
> java -cp bin/release/kipper.jar kipper.tools.MaskTool
To create particle effects for projectile collisions, entity trails, explosions, and more. This tool allows you to prototype and experiment with particle emitter systems using the embedded scripting language Jython.
Note: Particle tool has a dependency on Jython 2.5.3.
- F5 - Parse Jython script and update draw panel
Open the particle tool:
> ant ptool
or
> java -cp bin/release/kipper.jar;jython.jar kipper.tools.ParticleTool