This is a simple game that is sort of a Space Invaders / Galaga clone but the enemies can be scripted using Lua. I made this just to test my knowledge of the Lua programming language and if I can integrate it into a C program (like a simple game).
There are 15 waves and a final boss fight along with a bunch of randomly generated waves after that (though a lot of those are pretty much downright unfair to play, be warned).
If you do try modding the game, be warned that I did not include proper error checking into this game as I mostly consider this a small demo for me to experiment with the Lua Programming Language and its C API but documentation will be included - you won't get any error messages if something does go wrong.
NOTE: sometimes if you pass in a nil value to some functions it could result in the game crashing so be careful of that.
Documentation can be found in docs/.
You can either find it in plain text or as html in docs/html-docs/.
You will need the following libraries installed on your system to get the game to build:
cd galaxy_invaders
make
./galaxy_invaders
I used mingw-w64 to compile the game on Windows so you will be most likely to get it to work with that.
cd galaxy_invaders
mingw32-make
.\galaxy_invaders
Lua (website)
GLFW (website)
glad (website)
SOIL2 (repo)
background.png - "Sombrero Galaxy" Credit: STScI, NASA