Text Invaders

Language: C++
Rendering: PDCurses (terminal/console UI)
Build system: Visual Studio solution ( .sln / .vcxproj )

A Space Invaders clone that runs entirely in the terminal, written in C++ with PDCurses.

Features

Alien rows worth different point values, plus a mystery UFO for bonus points
Destructible shields that erode as they take fire
Aliens sweep side to side, drop a row on hitting a wall, and speed up as they're destroyed
Each new level starts the alien formation one row lower than the last
Game ends if the aliens reach the bottom of the screen
Aliens drop up to 3 bombs at once; the player fires one missile at a time
Sprite-based animations for the player and aliens
Intro, gameplay, game over, and high score screens
Persistent high score leaderboard (save/load to file)

Key	Action
`←` / `→`	Move the player / navigate menus
`Space`	Shoot / confirm
`S`	View high scores (from the intro screen)
`Q`	Quit

Note: Currently Windows (x86) only, built with Visual Studio.

Clone the repository.
Open Space Invaders.sln in Visual Studio, making sure the platform is set to x86, then press F5.
The build will fail to run because pdcurses.dll is missing.
Extract pdcurses.zip and copy pdcurses.dll from the extracted folder.
Paste it into bin/Win32/<Your-Configuration>/.
Press F5 again to build and run.