Space Battle Arena

Space Battle Arena is a ‘Programming Game‘ where you must write code (in Java) to autonomously control a space ship to accomplish specified objectives.

To find out more visit our GitHub Website. Complete Learning materials and other guides are available there as well.

Space Battle Arena is licensed under the GPLv2. Gson is licensed under the Apache license and provided for convenience on our release page.

Student Environment

It is expected that students have completed a full year of Java programming in high school or just over a semester of programming at the college level.

We use jGRASP as our IDE of choice when working with High School students, but any Java IDE can be used that is capable of adding a jar to a classpath and executing a class from within the jar as the main class.

Resources

• Client Setup
  • Client Java Docs
  • Initial Guides
• Server Setup
• Mac OS X Server from Source
• Talks
  • You Have Died of Dysentery: Games in Education Are Still Alive - PAXDev 2014
  • Reach for the Stars - PAXDev 2012
• Development

Development Tools

• Visual Studio 2013 w/ Python Tools
• Eclipse or jGRASP

Dependencies

Space Battle was built against the following versions of libraries:

• Java Client
  • Gson 2.2
• Python Server
  • Python 2.7.12
  • PyMunk 3.0.0
  • PyGame 1.9.1
  • Py2Exe 0.6.9 (for server executable build)

See the Development Guide for more information on extending Space Battle Arena.