Cosmic Invaders

These assets come from an old Allegro ~4.2 game and are in zlib compressed format. Two types of bitmap files exist: .mz and .sz files. The .mz variant are just simple bitmap graphics usually containing no animation frame data and are just meant to largely convey RGB24 static images, such as a game background.

The .sz variant is meant to utilize Allegro's sub_bitmap feature and treats the asset as having multiple frames of data as an RGB24 animated/multi-frame set of images.

The good news is, both file types can be treated as a single bitmap at least for the purpose of viewing the files and properly extracting them.

So far, this code will also knock out the two key colors that this particular collection of assets use.

In order to process these files zlib must be used to properly deal with the fact that they are compressed. The way these assets were figured out is by reverse engineering the original game asset using Binary Ninja.

To decompress and generate the .png equivalent assets just do: zig build run or for zigup users: zigup run master build run

Note and License

The original game was not built by me and was created circa 2006. If you are adept at coding and can figure out how I extracted the assets then you'll have access to the original game assets! If not, don't ask.

Aside from the game assets, this version is a fully clean-room, developed implementation of how I think the code behaves from observation of the original game. My version of this game, written in Zig is protected by the AGPL-3.0 license. Additionally, while I intend to create a close working clone, I will not be so strict on details and am mostly concerned with capturing the spirit of the original game. I might even diverge or change some aspects of the game such as the graphics, enemies, sound, music, etc.

Original

Original game runs at: 320x240, this game should as well but default to 640x480 and then magically scale up/down based on user doing some resizing of the window. All pixel-art must remain sharp.
On start game, player starts with 550 money, 25 health points
Weapons:
Lazer Canon Turret = 140 - simply fires projectile up
Missle Battery = 350 - fires a heat seeking, exploding missle
Spark Tower = 550 - emits a catastrophic spark of electricity
On game over, show GAME OVER banner, WAVES DEFEATED:
Max of 12 invaders per row
Every level, a new set of invaders spawns in a symmetrical formation
Upon hit of weapon station, screen shake
Upon weapon station blowing up, longer screen shake
On game over screen, everything is rendered in monochrome greyscale except banner
Hit on invader makes it flash white, invader now becomes red
Between waves, all player's buildings remain
On building hit, show a single dust cloud
On building collapse:
Show a timed release of 3 to 5 fiery explosions
Station becomes dead (removed) from scene
End with exploding sharapenel that bounces a few times on ground
When alien bullet hits weapon station, show a single smoke plume (just one).
When building is below X percent, show repeated smoke plumes.
Buildings cannot overlap on user placement, if overlapped render as red and don't allow placing it
When an invader is hit, his framerate speeds up temporarily to illustrate injury (faster pulsating)
Each new building costs more than the last (verify)
BOSS FIGHT: Every 5 levels (confirm this), a boss shows up drops red balls, green bubble with red eye. Invaders will fly in circular motion around it, protecting it
Additional settings (from original game) and factors can be found here: data/strings.txt