Short post update today...

So now the process has started for going into each entity’s update method and wiring up some systems.  Namely to get started I targeted the movement systems of navigation with the player, getting the screen collisions working, and updating the asteroids method as well.

This… wasn’t as easy as I thought…. I really thought I knew what I was doing.  To be fair... I was close.  But I struggled to get the vector math exactly what I wanted. So, I had to start doing some additional research into this mechanic.  Turns out, I simply needed to get back to the basics of F=MA.

I watched the YouTube video of The Lone Coder and his asteroids game.  https://youtu.be/QgDR8LrRZhk, for those keeping score at home, and he gives a decent account of the physics math required to get this to work.  I was able to make some adjustments, due to this being Asteroids +, I wanted to incorporate reverse thrust (brakes) as well. 

After some play testing on both mobile and desktop, I ported SOME of the physics math over to my asteroid entities, which is simpler, also I included the screen collision detection as well.

I now have a moving spaceship and white squares moving around the screen.

Till next time...

This currently hosted game site: https://asteroids-revisited.vercel.app/

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