simondiep/space-shooter

Space SHMUP game with upgrade system

JavaScript

space-shooter

Choose your weapon and shoot space aliens in your spaceship

How to start

npm i && npm start

External Storage

This game leverages an external store (webtask.io) for high scores. To set up your own external store:

Create a new webtask at https://webtask.io/make
Copy/paste the code in webtask_highscores.js into your webtask.
Save
Grab the public URL for your webtask at the bottom of the webtask editor
Replace the value of HIGH_SCORES_API_URL inside high-scores.js

Ideas

Have three different game modes
- Tutorial - done
- Arcade
- Endless - done
reduce hitbox of player
Endless vs Arcade mode
- Level 1
  - introduce player to controls
  - introduce game mechanic - What is the special game mechanic?
  - introduce single enemy type and quirk/pattern
  - midboss for that enemy type - apply all that you've learned so far
- Level 2
  - introduce single enemy type and quirk/pattern
  - mix up enemy types
  - boss

Longer term

Display damage numbers
Attack speed stat
AoE
Mutators
Hotkeys to switch between weapons
Rotating asteroids
Non-circle projectiles
Mouse movement
Shield
Twin ships
Terrain that is collidable
Reduce fire rate when space bar held down
Longer projectiles that look cool but don't have additional power
Faster pace like videoball
stylize radio/checkboxes
on hold
- charge up shot
- auto-fire
on projectile hit effects
- explode
Support more than five projectiles for spread type
Like Life-force?
Exp system
Level up screen
Loot drops from enemies
Loot magnet

Dynamic difficulty

target survival time of 1 min
if over x games, user averages a longer survival time, bump up enemy health and speed

Credits

Music from Josh Penn-Pierson

https://github.com/OpenSourceMusic/Death-Sword