Taking shape as a video game — Progress report

We started with a blank project and now we have some nice-looking sprites and some general functionality.

We have a player

The player sprite moves around the screen

An enemy

An enemy moving slow…must be planning something

A laser

A spawn manager

And now… a triple shot laser. This is a temporary powerup that replaces the player's single laser with 3. The first laser shoots off like the normal single laser but the other 2 shoot off at 20 degrees from each wing, significantly widening the players' attack range.

It has been a great experience so far, with many more features to add, break, fix and break again but we are starting to resemble a game you might find on the play store.