StarMines: The Next Generation

About

Asteroids is Atari's 1979 multidirectional space shooter where players destroy asteroids and flying saucers while avoiding collisions, with the field growing more crowded over time. Omega Race is a 1981 vector-graphics shoot-'em-up by Midway, its only arcade release to use vector graphics. StarMines: The Next Generation is a web-based space shooter inspired by classics like Asteroids and Omega Race, rebuilt in HTML5 and Scala.js as a reboot of the earlier Java-based StarMines. It is playable directly in the browser, uses sprites pre-rendered from 3D models, and posts high scores to an online leaderboard.

Getting started

The game can be played directly in the browser via its hosted web page, with no installation needed.

History

StarMines: The Next Generation is a reboot of the earlier Java-based StarMines, rebuilt using HTML5 and Scala.js; the project has been maintained by its creator, Jari Karjala, since 1999.

Additional notes

Assets

Most sprites are pre-rendered from Persistence of Vision (POV-Ray) 3D models and packed into sprite sheets with TexturePacker Pro.