artemoliynyk / space-shooter-2004

This is one of my first games I've created in school

What's that? 🤔

This, my friend, is a pint project I've created in school.

My first real, fully functional game written in Deplhi 7.

I was quite a computer genius myself. Back then computers were not rare in my home country, but a 14 years old kids coding games was very rare, to say the least.

I wanted to create a game and tried a few times.

I took a demo-game from Delphi demos and changed colour, claimed it's mine! BS was called and I admitted that it was not really my game.

It took me a few years to improve and I did it!

I was inspired by the old-school games - Space Invaders and Galaxian.

Some technical stuff

I wasn't good in programming, I didn't knew how to use resources – so I've placed all the images on the hidden window and just reused them 😂

It was a super-primitive game and quite a trivial implementation.

All the images, background and spaceship models were created by me in Photoshop.

I was proud of myself and you know – I'm still proud of that kid I was.

20 years old code and still working

I was impressed (not surprised though) how good backward compatible Windows is.

EXE binary compiled 19 years ago just worked on Win 11 and my old Delphi 7 installation gave me zero errors and I was able to set it up and then compile my little precious game.

Footnote

Project name was "Star Wars" originally. Never heard about any copyrights back then. 😅

I had to change it a bit, but just in case – no copyrights infringement intended.