StarBugz game prototype and engine (using Gu) with source

[dr_watson]

This is a prototype of StarBugz, a Space Invader clone. The purpose of the project was to get myself familiar with programming PSP games, and hopefully to build up a simple game engine in the process.

After working on the project in my spare time for nearly a month, the hardware accelerated 2D game engine, called JGE (Jas Game Engine), was basically done. JGE uses Gu libraries for image rendering and StarBugz now becomes a small showcase of the engine, demonstrating various features of it.

Here are few screen shots of StarBugz:







In-game control:
[O] Fire
[X] Skip company logo and credits page
[TRIANGLE] Take a screenshot (will store in psp/photo, in PNG format)
[L1] Toggle frame rate display
[SELECT] Exit to main menu

I've learned everything about programming the PSP from the PSP homebrew community, including various forums and source code from http://svn.ps2dev.org. I guess it's time for me to give a small contribution back to the community. Here is the complete source code of StarBugz prototype, the game engine JGE and also a small demo of the engine. Hopefully someone may find it useful

(Just a side note: The classes/functions naming of JGE is based heavily on HGE, a Windows based 2D game engine, as I found HGE such a good game engine to play with! Thanks Haaf! In fact, my goal is evetually have the same source code of StarBugz to build with JGE and HGE at the same time!)

Special thanks to my lovely wife for her support and beta testing StarBugz for me.

[wraggster]

awesome, i spotted the game on PS2dev forums the other day and posted it but its great to see you post it here

[dj2005]

Nice game, thanks

[dr_watson]

Thanks for the compliments. I came to this forum few times before but I kept forgetting the URL I've registered and bookmarked the URL so I'll definitely visit here more often from now on.