Square Shooter is an abstract shooter (duh!) very loosely based on the classic arcade game Asteroids. It's not complete, but it is quite addictive. You've been warned!
Play
Instructions
Click the hollow bubbles to shoot them. Hold down the mouse button BRIEFLY (and preferably not far from your ship) to accelerate towards the cursor. You may want to catch the little squares – they're useful power-ups. That's about all!
If you don't see any text on the game screen, just click to start playing. There's a pause button in the upper left and a quit button in the lower right. Quitting only works while the game is paused, to prevent accidents.
Compatibility
Square Shooter is fully compatible with Firefox 3.5, Opera 10.60, Safari, and other Webkit-based browsers such as Arora.
Partial compatibility exists with Firefox 2.0.x/3.0.x and Konqueror 4.
The game is not playable on the iPhone. See below for technical details. IE 9 is okay, according to a compatibility report here, but is unsupported.
Download
What, you don't know how to get at the Javascript? Boo! Here it is. As with most of my software, you can have it under the MIT License. Enjoy!
Technical issues
Square Shooter relies on the new <canvas> tag in HTML5. Unfortunately, browser support is still spotty, and this is by no means the only problem. IE (8 and below) doesn't even implement the ECMAScript standard, but a different language that is usually compatible. Not in this case. And then I'm not sure the Excanvas emulation layer would be fast enough.
On the iPhone, the game starts up normally, but since the onmousedown/onmouseup events don't fire, there is no way to actually play the game. If there's a simple workaround, let me know.
