About
Missile Command is a 1980 Atari arcade game in which the player uses a trackball to defend six cities from waves of intercontinental ballistic missiles by launching anti-ballistic missiles from three bases. Sea Defender is a lightweight, roughly 96KB clone of Missile Command for Linux, Windows, and macOS, made as an entry for a demoscene compo. It requires a video card with GLSL support and is distributed under the MIT license, with a few bundled third-party components under their own licenses.
How it differs from the original
The game has no music, and its visuals are generated from SVG path data converted by custom scripts into binary font and model files rather than using traditional original game assets.
Additional notes
- Development
- The author describes the code as rushed due to a competition deadline, which the project ultimately missed anyway.