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:

1. Create a new webtask at https://webtask.io/make
2. Copy/paste the code in webtask_highscores.js into your webtask.
3. Save
4. Grab the public URL for your webtask at the bottom of the webtask editor
5. 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