A Brief Introduction to Space Invaders 

Humanity’s Last and Best Hopes @quadhome @gardym Mike, say something funny about yourself. Scott, admit your greatest fear is talking in front of a group of strangers. 

When the fate of the world is on the line... (Really) Fast Feedback Test Driven DevelopmentDESIGN Continuously Continuous Delivery 1-Click® Deployment Why are we here? To have fun and learn... FF: the speed of a team of a development team is dependent on how fast we can react TDD: Because evolving code with tests guides our design. CD: When changes are made, we can immediately put them out with confidence. Deployment: Don’t want to schedule a release to save the world... but, actually... 

The Real Reason § KEEP CALM AND RETRO GAME 

εϖʔεΠϯϕʔμ Designed engineer and built by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978 Who, according to Wikipedia, had a dream about Japanese school children attacked by invading aliens whilst waiting for Santa Claus. HISTORY: STRANGER THAN FICTION 

An Invader What’s funny about the Invader? Nothing. There’s here to destroy planet Earth. 

The Swarm It’s common knowledge that all alien invasions come in swarm form. The worst form. 

The Tank Our last, best, most advanced but lowest resolution defence against skyborn menaces. 

The Tank’s Bullet They go up. 

An Invader’s Bullet They go down. 

An approximation of game programming while(true) { update_everything(time, input); collide_everything(); draw_everything(); } Event loop. Move everything, see what got hit, and then draw the results... like a Space Invader... 

The Theatre of War (0,0) (width, height) (x, y) (width, height) An invader and its bounding box Collisions occur when bounding boxes overlap Invader { active: [true, false] box: { x, y, width, height } update(time, input) collide(what hit) team: [Team.Earth, Team.Invader] } 

So let’s play! testinvaders.heroku.com