Space Blaster

2D Shooter assigment.

Changes made:

• Implemented movement boost
  • Assigned input (Shift key) to boost activation via key holding
  • Implemented counter to represent current boost charge
  • Implemented boost charge depletion through input
  • Implemented power up to refill boost charge
  • Implemented different boost modes (on, infinite and off)
• Improved player
  • Lives are transported from one level to the other
• Improved enemies
  • Changed collision with environment from enemy destruction to normal collision with no damage
  • Added mutual damage to collision with player
• Modified all 3 levels
  • Added power ups that can be collected by the player
    • Extra lives
    • Boost refills
  • Modified some environment objects so they can be destroyed
• Improved HUD
  • Added display of the player's lives on the form of player sprites repeated to the number of current lives
  • Added representation of the lives able to be collected until the maximum on the form of player sprites, with the color adjusted to be different from the current lives
  • Added boost charge display
  • Added enemies destroyed counter on each level, along with the number of enemies that must be destroyed in order to complete the level
• Improved Main Menu
  • Added game instructions to the space surrounding the menu
  • Modified the layout of some menus
• Improved game camera
  • Allow different camera modes (locked and free)
• Added Options Menu
  • Allow camera mode configuration
  • Allow boost mode configuration
  • Allow options reset
  • Allow high score reset
• Added Victory screen
  • Added representation of game score, high score and lives remaining at the end of the game

Credits

Created by JP Guimarães