There is a power cap now. You start with 100 power and a cap of 200. There is a small chance that a killed enemy will leave a bonus sphere. The blue spheres add +50 to the max power, the others give your ship additional cannons. Over time enemies get harder now and also hit harder. From about 5,000 ...

Power cap is one option. Maybe have upgrades later to raise the cap? And slowly make the enemies more dangerous, give them stronger weapons ... but yes. When recording the new video, to show the game over screen, I had to intentionally ram some groups of enemies to take enough damage to actually die.

Almost a game now. Added a title screen and a game over screen. Zero power is game over. The reached depth (how far one got into the tunnel) can count as score.


Shoot with control, steer with the cursor (arrow keys)

Youtube video of this version,
https://youtu.be/xFqLnzAfgRs

Thanks! Meanwhile, I've been working on some improvements: - Ship creation is now done in three steps. This helps to reduce the little stalls on slower computers, that happened when ship and explosion graphics were created. This change also allowed to spend a little more computation time to make the...

Thanks! I'll try to make it a real game soon. And yep. 12KB code package. I love the contrast to the megabyte heavy game downloads of today.

An experiment of mine - make a side scrolling shooter where all images, sounds and effects and generated by the computer. No artwork made by someone, only code to tell the computer how to make stuff that looks like a space ship (or some alien space thing), an explosion, a tunnel, and how to shape a ...

The game got a title screen now, a total of 4 levels and some new sprites for the critters. Level design is harder than expected, but I hope I can come up with some nice puzzles soon.

New version, new bugs. Well, I hope a few old bugs fixed, too. I didn't experience the black void effect anymore, seems I could keep my map data safe from the garbage collector. The player now has a total of 5 lives (press Escape to restart the level after dying) and once down to 0 lives, you restar...

Hooray! I guess you got the most possible out of it. The black void is bug though. I had the effect too, but right now I am not sure what causes it. I think I have a problem with the map data handling there.

Ah yes. I didn't know the forum allows to upload .love files. So lets see if this works on other computers too, or only on mine ...

Edit: It's currently really just a demo. Some graphics are placeholders, and there is only one level.