{"id":16019,"date":"2022-06-24T09:01:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T13:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=16019"},"modified":"2022-06-24T09:01:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T13:01:37","slug":"daves-matlab-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2022\/06\/24\/daves-matlab-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave&#8217;s MATLAB Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/76890\">Will<\/a>'s pick this week is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/31330-dave-s-matlab-shooter\">Dave's MATLAB Shooter(data)<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/profile\/authors\/2843427\">David Buckingham<\/a>.\r\n<br><br>\r\nThis submission is way back in 2010, but it has somehow dodged the Pick of the Week...till now. This is an Atari-style vertical scrolling shooter built entirely in MATLAB. And though it was designed more than a decade ago, it still runs in the latest release of MATLAB. The submission's resiliency is a testament to the quality of Dave's code and the forward compatibility of MATLAB. The game was a wee bit sluggish on my laptop, but I was still able to take down a few enemies before biting the bullet.\r\n<br><br>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/Dave_Shooter.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"464\" height=\"832\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/Dave_Shooter.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16022\" \/><\/a>\r\n<br><br>\r\nLet us know what you think <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=16019#respond\">here<\/a> or leave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/31330-dave-s-matlab-shooter\">comment<\/a> for David.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/Dave_Shooter.gif\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\" \/><\/div><p>Will's pick this week is Dave's MATLAB Shooter(data) by David Buckingham.\r\n\r\nThis submission is way back in 2010, but it has somehow dodged the Pick of the Week...till now. This is an Atari-style... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2022\/06\/24\/daves-matlab-shooter\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16028,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16019\/revisions\/16028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}