If I update the game I'll maybe try enabling vertical movement. That would make homing missiles a LOT less threatening for sure. Some balancing might be needed. One idea would be not to allow free vertical movement, but to give the player a "boost" button to push you up the screen for only a split second, with a cooldown.
Powerups would also be great, but would also need balanced. Like really powerful power-ups that only last for a short time, or power-ups that are only marginally more powerful and don't cause the game to be lost effectively the first time you die and lose your weapon. I think some classic shooters will always spawn power-ups when you re-spawn, that might be good...
I've just started with a small board game using dragonruby (senior ruby but completely newbie gamedev here), so I've started to deal with problems like that one.
Anyway, keep the good work there or any other future project.
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Cool game, I really enjoyed it.
BTW, moving up/down would make things more fun and easier to avoid homing missiles.
And some sort of Power-ups for shots would be great also.
Cheers
Thank you very much for the kind feedback :)
If I update the game I'll maybe try enabling vertical movement. That would make homing missiles a LOT less threatening for sure. Some balancing might be needed.
One idea would be not to allow free vertical movement, but to give the player a "boost" button to push you up the screen for only a split second, with a cooldown.
Powerups would also be great, but would also need balanced. Like really powerful power-ups that only last for a short time, or power-ups that are only marginally more powerful and don't cause the game to be lost effectively the first time you die and lose your weapon. I think some classic shooters will always spawn power-ups when you re-spawn, that might be good...
Yep, balance sounds like a tricky thing.
I've just started with a small board game using dragonruby (senior ruby but completely newbie gamedev here), so I've started to deal with problems like that one.
Anyway, keep the good work there or any other future project.
Best