Lasers!

“Lasers!” is without the shadow of a doubt, the best game ever written. Just feast your eyes upon this magnificient screenshot,

A sniper is aiming at you with a laser, inside a room covered with mirrors (mondays, uh). Luckily, you have up to 16 blue obstacles at your disposal to block the laser. Will you be able to do it?

Installation

Install the necessary dependences, libsdl2-2.0-0, libsdl2-image-2.0-0, libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0, and also automake. On Debian based distributions,

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libsdl2-2.0-0\
  libsdl2-image-2.0-0\
  libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0\
  automake

Clone this repository, configure, make, and make install,

git clone https://github.com/sbacco/Lasers.git
cd Lasers
autoreconf -i
./configure
make
sudo make install

You can now run Lasers!,

lasers

Todo list

• Add an in-depth documentation, where I go into all of the interesting mathematical details.
• Fix bug when an obstacle has to be placed over the shooter. Maybe avoid the situation entirely?
• Figure out a way to compute the maximum number of bounce-offs that will be needed, to make computations faster.
• Implement nicer behavior when the player tries to put an obstacle onto an existing object (right now, it systematically goes to the right).
• Have some pretty mouse pointers to go with the game.