Asteroids-ish Game in C#/Windows Forms

    Final project in a game programming class, with a development cycle of 4 weeks.  It was created before I knew anything about Network programming so the server/client that was started in the source code does not do anything.

    Our project was made is windows forms, and most other people created a turn based game.  I decided that would be too easy, (lazy!), and made a real time old school clone of asteroids.  I quickly found out that using windows forms is the wrong tool for real time graphics.

    I learned how to make my own collision volumes on both circles and rectangles.  I also learned about how graphics are rendered to the screen using the back buffers and that if I did not double buffer the graphics canvas in windows forms that there would be massive stutter.

    First week I spent brainstorming ideas on what I wanted to do and preparing research.  Second and third weeks were spent getting a working prototype and implementing technology.  Last week was spent bug killing and optimizing.  I kept this plan from week one and it helped alot.  I was in need of almost a straight week of bug hunting to get it working properly.

    I will remake this when I learn more about Direct X and/or OpenGL, and can use the correct tool for the job.  Just because I can program a game into a platform does not mean that plaform is ment to run that software.  I am also learning WPF intead of Windows Forms, since it is now used more in current OS's.

Download Playable Asteroids-ish for Windows