Right now, my powerup spawning system works fine but I want to separate the ammo and health powerups from the rest of the group so I can tweak their spawn rates independently. I’d rather have the health spawn rarely and have the ammo spawn frequently. I’ll work in the spawn…

I want to make it easier for my player to collect powerups, and the best way to do that would to create some sort of functionality where the player can use a “magnet” to attract nearby powerups. This is pretty simple to implement. I created an empty object as a…

Now that the boss battle is out of the way, I want to add some more features to the enemies. I added the randomly shielded enemies, but I want more diversity of enemy types. I want to make one that flies in the direction of the player and is faster…

All of the functionality for my boss character is done, and now I just need to make the functionality for the boss level to start and the game to end when the boss is destroyed. I added a check to the spawning routine to see if the current wave is…

I’m back at it again, comin’ at ya’ with some funky fresh, heart-stopping, boss-making action. Today, I want to give the boss some shields and also give it weapons. I’ll start with the shields. I want the boss’ shields to be up while moving so the player can’t just unload…

Now that my shooter as a wave system, it is only natural that I put a boss level at the end. Before I do that, I need a boss character. I found some art that worked as a boss and created an object out of it. I gave it the…

Currently, enemies in my space shooter will spawn forever as long as the player is still alive. To change things up, I want to add a wave spawning system to the game where each wave will progressively spawn more enemies. Maybe later I’ll add a boss level to the end. …

Here I am, knee-deep in my never-ending quest to add more stuff to my game. This time, I want to add shielded enemies that require an extra shot to destroy. Surprisingly, this will only take a small amount of code! I started by copying the existing player shield object and…

Powerups are great! They *up* the players *power*. But, what if some of them didn’t? I have to punish my player right? Just nod your head in agreement and I’ll stop doing this weird bit. I want to add a pickup item that damages the player if they collide with…