Exploring Spacewar!

Jamie D, Web Media

A brief game talking about the birth of the 1962 classic game Spacewar! with a playable recreation and remix.

Spacewar was once programmed to run on a computer bigger than a fridge now, due to the digitisation of our culture and the convergence of our current technologies it can be recreated and ran in a web browser. If possible play this on a smart fridge for maximum immersion.

Images and videos included in this project were used legally under the Australian Fair Dealing Act. All original content will be under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia (CC BY-SA 3.0 AU) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/

Controls

Pause game: P

Rotate: A,D

Thrust: W

Fire: Spacebar

Hyperspace: R

References

Computer History Museum. (2017, Nov 17). SpaceWar! [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/_L1HeZ2kPck

CuriousMarc. (2017, May 2). Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!) [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/1EWQYAfuMYw

CoolCatGameStudio. (2020). Stars Space Universe Free Photo. https://www.needpix.com/photo/download/1874680/stars-space-universe-cosmos-galax...

AlexAntropov86. (2018, June 23). Black Hole https://pixabay.com/photos/black-hole-space-cosmos-universe-3490482/

PlymouthJCliffords. (2012, Sept 3). Rocket Roar (looping) [Audio]. https://freesound.org/people/PlymouthJCliffords/sounds/164842/

Astounded. (2019, Aug 14). Laser Effect Contact Mic [Audio]. https://freesound.org/people/Astounded/sounds/479353/

greenvwbeetle. (2015, Nov 6). Pop 8 [Audio]. https://freesound.org/people/greenvwbeetle/sounds/328117/

YouTube Audio Library. (2020). Hyperspeed [Audio]. https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary