About
Star Wars is a 1983 first-person rail-shooter arcade game by Atari using 3D vector graphics to simulate the Death Star assault from the 1977 film, including a TIE-fighter space battle, a Death Star surface run, and a climactic trench run, with speech synthesis emulating the film's actors. star-wars-iii is a remake of just the trench-run sequence (Level III) of the 1983 Star Wars arcade game, built in the CodeSkulptor Python environment as a coding-weekend project with junior students at PESIT. It follows the original level 3 rules, with the Death Star destructible roughly once every three attempts by default.
How it differs from the original
Unlike the full arcade original, this remake covers only the level 3 trench-run sequence, and the number of attempts needed to destroy the Death Star is configurable in the code rather than fixed.
Getting started
The game runs in the CodeSkulptor development environment. Players must fire proton torpedoes once the distance display reads zero, and can shrink their X-Wing's dimensions or reduce its velocity in the code if the default difficulty proves too tough -- worth remembering that X-Wings are wider than they are tall.
History
The project was made during a coding weekend at PESIT with junior students.