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Build Your Own Asteroids

This challenge is to build your own version of the classic arcade game Asteroids. Asteroids, which was was first released in 1979, sees the player controlling a spaceship in an asteroid field. The objective of the game is to destroy the asteroids and the occasional flying saucer by shooting them.

Build Your Own Pong

For as long as I have been interested in programming, programmers have been learning by building computer games. Many of us start with Pong and over time progress to either copying other more complex games, building our own from scratch or customising existing games.

Build Your Own QR Code Generator

A QR code (short for quick-response code) is a sort of two dimensional barcode. They were invented in 1994 by the Japanese company Denso Wave to label car parts. Like barcodes they are a machine readable optical image that can contain information.

Build Your Own Tetris

For as long as I have been interested in programming, programmers have been learning by building computer games. Many of us started by building our own Pong and over time progress to either copying other more complex games, building our own game from scratch or customising existing games.