normalgamer/meteors

Welcome to Meteors, a game about shooting meteors to protect the Earth. The game will be developed in 6502 assembly for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Meteors

Welcome to Meteors, a game in which you have to defend the Earth by shooting meteors. The game will be developed in 6502 assembly for the Nintendo Entertainment System

It was just a regular Tuesday, when suddenly, a bazillion meteors were found with a straight trajectory to the Earth. You were chosen to drive the most advanced spaceship to date and destroy those meteors with its plasma cannon. There is a catch, though. Your ship can only shoot 4 projectiles at a time. Will you save the Earth, or fail while being squashed by a meteor? You are the last hope of the planet.

Why assembly, and why the NES?

The question is simple: why would I start developing a game for a 35 year-old console on almost the most difficult programming language just below binary code? My answer is, why not? I like old hardware, because usually it is "simpler". Programming might not be very intuitive, with all the instructions being 3 characters long, but the hardware on these old systems is simpler compared to modern day consoles. It is limited, thus it's simple. You don't have a billion ways of optimizing code, you don't have a bazillion instructions to learn. You have a bucnh of instructions and you gotta use your mind to work around what you want to do. It might look difficult, but it's simpler than what you think!

Status of the game

Right now, the game is veeery new, you just move the spaceship side to side and shoot 4 plasma projectiles, and that's it.

How to compile & run

You can straight up run the main.nes file using a NES emulator (like FCEUX), but if you modify the code, you just have to run build.bat and it will create two output files: main.fns and main.nes. Run main.nes on an emulator and you're done.

Controls

D-pad: move left/right A: shoot plasma projectiles

meteors's Issues

No answer after compiling.

I have compiled the software using build.bat, but it seems that it only says "Pass 1, Pass 2", no much more. It doesn't run the code. I recommend adding in the readme.md a "How 2 install" section, and a TL;DR for each section.