Galaxy Shooter — Phase II: Core Programming

Day 42 — Aspiring Game Creator

2D Game Dev: Galaxy Shooter

Surviving the negative pick-up grants the Ultimate Power-Up: Shields, Triple Shot, Fully Loaded Laser Cannons, All Repairs & the magnetic attraction cheat key!

Objective: Negative Pick-Up/Ultimate Power-UP

Galaxy Shooter constantly balances power, in order to enable the Ultimate Power-Up the player must endure a negative pick-up.

Enabling the Ultimate Power-Up, the player loses control of the ship for a random amount of time (10–15 seconds), spinning out of control, absorbing 2x damage in engines, losing shield power and very little thruster power.

Acquiring the Ultimate Power-Up means enduring a hugely negative pick-up.

Aside from spinning the ship & altering X/Y inputs, there’s not much coding to this Power-Up, many of the methods already in place are called when the pick-up is touched.

Once the negative effects of the pick-up have been endured, ship power is fully restored — full energy to laser cannons — Triple Shot charged, Full Shield power and the new “magnet” attraction power — currently enabled by “cheat key” ‘C’.

Trying to grab the Ultimate Power-Up requires skill & luck to survive the effects.