A simple top-down game with graphics, particle effects, and sound. There is a turret represented by a brain with a blue ring which will rotate to face you and will fire its gun if you get too close. Your character is a brain with a gold ring which can also shoot in the direction that it is facing. You control your character using the keyboard or an XBox controller (see the tables below). The background is a simple image and the world size is its width and height, which are larger than the window. The camera follows the player but it stops at the edges of the world so that you never see anything that is outside the world. Bullets persist until they run into something, either the player, the turret, or the edges of the world. The turret does not move. Neither the turret nor the player character can die.

Keyboard Controls

Key	Action
F1	Help (this document)
F2	Toggle frame rate display
Up arrow	Move forwards when pressed
Down arrow	Retreat when pressed
Left arrow	Rotate counterclockwise when pressed
Right arrow	Rotate clockwise when pressed
Space	Shoot
A	Strafe left
D	Strafe right
Backspace	Restart game
PrtScr (hold down)	Save screenshot to a PNG file

X-Box Controller

Control	Action
Right Trigger	Forward speed
Right Thumb	Rotation speed and direction
Right Button	Shoot
DPad Left	Strafe left
DPad Right	Strafe right

The LARC Engine

This code uses the LARC Engine and is part of the LARC Code Base.