Shmup

From a Udemy course: Complete C# Unity Game Developer 2D

Expanding on the original tutorial by adding:

• Background enhancements

  • Asteroids
  • "Nebula cloud" shifts randomly every 90 seconds

• Energy — drains while firing, regens while not firing

• Object pooling

  • for projectiles

• Collectable power-ups (dropped randomly by defeated enemies)

  • Heal: minor, major, full, increase max health

  • Ammo types

    • Double-shot (bigger hitbox, double damage)

    • Faster shot (single shot, but higher firing rate and velocity)

    • Photons (highest damage, but smaller hitbox)

    • (Spoilers)

      • Whenever you collect the same kind of ammo that you're already using, you get a slight boost to velocity or firing rate.

  • Shield (big hitbox, takes a few hits and goes away)

  • Booster (speed boost)

  • Gold Wings (increases score but also player's hitbox)

  • Drones (collect up to 3; they trail the ship and fire the same projectile type)

  • 1-Up (add after implementing multiple lives)

• Smoother screen shake w/Perlin noise

• Enemies may Flee or Dive when damaged

• Enemy classes -- color & shape determine behavior, health, firing rate, powerup drop odds

  • (Class details)

    • Colors
      • Black: Standard HP. Worth 100. Often faster.
      • Blue: Lower HP. Worth 25. Less likely to respond when shot.
      • Green: More HP. Worth 50. Often slower.
      • Orange: Standard HP. Worth 75. More likely to respond when shot.
    • Types
      • Type 1 "Frog": Prefers to drop Heal or Drone Powerups. Likely to flee when shot.
      • Type 2 "Ray": Prefers to drop Weapon or Drone Powerups. Likely to dive when shot, or maybe flee.
      • Type 3 "Cowl": Prefers to drop Shield or Heal Powerups. Likely to flee when shot, or maybe dive.
      • Type 4 "Hex": Prefers to drop Shield or Speed Powerups. Fires twice as often, and projectiles are faster.
      • Type 5 "Vamp": Prefers to drop Speed or Weapon Powerups. Likely to dive when shot.

• Additional levels

  • Continue/Restart
  • Level Selection

• Boss fights

• Multiple lives? (But we already get so many Health drops. Maybe instead "retries" where you keep your score on replay?)

Credits

Music: "Mythica" by congusbongus

Graphics: KenneyNL

(TODO: credit the star and nebula backgrounds creator)