Visual basic: Asteroids

[mrapoc]

Hey guys

I need a bit of assistance building an asteroids style game for college work. The problem I face is mainly finding coding for making the ship rotate in the middle of the screen.

Here is my design blog:

My game idea follows the basic idea of the classic Atari game, Asteroids. I aim to use basic graphics that I have designed myself, on a background of stars and planets. The player will have to fire at asteroids, making suitable sound effects as the missile/laser fires out of the ship, destroying the asteroid (if hit) showing an explosion animated gif. Lives will be shown at the bottom of the screen and score will increase by 50 per asteroid. I could even make levels, so that asteroids speed up by a certain value per 10 asteroids destroyed (will be calculated by score increase).

I dont know whether to allow the player to move or just let them rotate on a fix location in the middle of the screen (i can always add it in once the rotation has been coded)

So my first problem is sorting out coding to allow the "A" and "D" keys to rotate the "spaceship" accordingly.

reps for any help

 

[RollerCam540]

I'd be happy to help if I can, but I need you to clearly explain (a) what you want accomplished, (b) how you programmatically hoped to accomplish that, and (c) why you're currently unable to do so.

P.S. How did you fare with your last MS ACCESS project?

 

[mrapoc]

hey man

i just finished it all to a distinction level (the highest and im the only)

good news with this too, iv also completed it to a basic enough level and just have to do some paper based work on design and explaining myself

 

[CmmBinoo]

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