Asteroids

Asteroids clone built with Zig 0.15.1 and raylib-zig.

Features

• Fullscreen desktop play on Windows
• Escape exits immediately
• Vector-style line rendering with fullscreen bloom/glow
• Custom stroke font rendered from line segments
• Procedural particle effects for thrust, impacts, and explosions
• Procedurally synthesized arcade-style sound effects
• Periodic gravity rifts that bend trajectories and consume anything pulled into their core
• Randomized powerups including a temporary attack drone that orbits the ship and zaps nearby threats
• Classic-style Asteroids rules:
  • inertia and thrust-based ship movement
  • asteroid splitting
  • saucer spawns and hostile fire
  • hyperspace
  • score, lives, waves, and extra lives

Controls

• Left / A: Rotate left
• Right / D: Rotate right
• Up / W: Thrust
• Space: Fire
• Left Shift / Right Shift: Hyperspace
• Enter: Start / restart
• Escape: Exit

Requirements

• Zig 0.15.1

The current machine was bootstrapped with:

winget install --id zig.zig --version 0.15.1 --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements

Run

zig build run

Test

zig build test

Release Build

Build a portable executable folder:

zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast

The executable is written to:

zig-out/bin/asteroids.exe

That output is self-contained for normal desktop sharing.