Minestorm

🎮 MINESTORM – RETRO VECTOR SURVIVAL

A fast-paced arcade survival game inspired by the legendary Vectrex title Minestorm.

Pilot your ship through a field of deadly mines, avoid collisions, and survive as long as possible in this minimalist retro vector-style experience.

🚀 PLAY IN YOUR BROWSER

This game runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly. No installation required.

🎮 CONTROLS

• Arrow keys: rotate / thrust
• Space: shoot
• Enter: confirm
• M: mute audio

🧠 OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

This project is fully open-source and available on GitHub. It is not just a game — it is also a complete technical example showing how to:

• build a C++ game using olcPixelGameEngine
• add audio with MiniAudio (PGEX)
• compile to WebAssembly using Emscripten
• deploy automatically to GitHub Pages

👉 Source code: https://github.com/rboman/minestorm

🔧 TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

• Language: C++
• Engine: olcPixelGameEngine
• Audio: olcPGEX MiniAudio
• Web build: Emscripten (WebAssembly)
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions + GitHub Pages

This repository can serve as a starting point for your own C++ → WebAssembly projects.

🎵 AUDIO CREDITS

• Music: "Darker Waves" by Zander Noriega , Licensed under CC-BY 3.0, Source: OpenGameArt
• Sound effects: Generated with Bfxr

⚠️ NOTE

If audio does not start, click once inside the game window (browser autoplay policy).

💡 ABOUT

This project was developed as a "vibe coding" experiment using AI-assisted development (Codex).