Flight & Fight

This is a 3D arcade plane fighting game that I worked on for a couple of months. The basic idea is that you fly a fighter plane around and have to shoot down as many enemy planes as possible before you run out of health and crash. It's a simple gameplay loop but it's actually kind of fun. It was mostly meant to show off the tech from my infworld demo but I was able to learn some more about other technology from this project such as how to use OpenAL to simulate 3D, how to build a UI with Nuklear (prior I was just making my own GUI code from scratch and while it kind of worked, I have to admit that I prefer having a library like Nuklear instead), and how to import obj models from Blender into a program (this project is the first game that I've made that has 3D models imported and I also learned Blender for this project as well). Overall, I'm really happy with how this project turned out.

Controls
- Space Bar/Left Mouse Button - Shoot
- A, D - Turn
- S - Pitch up
- W - Pitch down
- Left Shift/Scroll up - Speed up
- Left Ctrl/Scroll down - Slow down
- You can also move your mouse to rotate the plane
  - move mouse up = pitch up
  - move mouse down = pitch down
  - move mouse left = rotate left
  - move mouse right = rotate right
- T - toggle crosshair in fight mode

NOTE: The mouse is intended for more fine adjustments to your plane's rotation (such as targeting or course correction), if you are trying to make larger changes in rotation then I would recommend using the keyboard as if you just use the mouse you're probably going to have a bad time.

You can find the source code for the project here.

Credits
Thumbnail: used part of a skybox texture for the background (Sky Box - Sunny Day) downloaded from opengameart. "Sky Box - Sunny Day" is by Chad Wolfe (KIIRA) and is licensed under the CC-BY 3.0 license. More details on assets used for this game can be found in the downloadable text file "credits.txt".

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Credits