Cosmic Interlopers is a piece of coursework I’ve completed for the 2D graphics course at the University of Hull. During development, it was known as Particle Invaders, ‘the one with the particles’ or ‘the one with an explode button’. Really, it was just an experiment to see how many particles I could get on screen without C# dying a death; the answer is about 2,000,000.

The gameplay is pretty standard Space Invaders affair, enemies scroll towards you, you shoot at them, they shoot at you, etcetera. Enemies will split in two when hit (and explode), you can also shoot enemy shots out of the air (which explode), and get to fight a boss every 5 levels (which bleeds, and then explodes). Just be careful not to hit the Enter button by accident (which might explode).

Control using the arrow keys and spacebar, requires the .NET framework and OpenGL.

To play the game, click the Run Cosmic Interlopers shortcut. Zip file includes full source code, but will require the tao framework to compile.

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I plan on using this site to keep track of my programming projects and, in case anyone’s interested, let them know what I’m working on.