SHORTSTAR'S PROFILE

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Yes and it is a terrible game. But good for them making a million dollars selling it.

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So far mine has skill... random flying enemies of random sizes of random placement of random speeds. So the scoring system turns into (100 - enemy.size) * enemy.speed * (player._x - enemy._x) * (100 - bullet.size) So smaller enemies get more points, faster enemies get more points, further the range gets more points, smaller your bullets are get more points. Then there is another multiplier if you kill more than 1 enemy with 1 bullet. So if a normal bullet lances 2 enemies it means more points than a super charged bullet lancing 10 enemies.

I implamented a HP system. Your ship takes damage based on how big the object was that hit you. So if you get hit by a pebble it does 5 damage and if you get hit by a boulder it does 80 damage and your ship has 100 HP. I guess to really amp up the RPG there could be levels and attributes and gunpower vs defense. Oh and poison too. I've also got 2 levels of a charge shot. It is rougher than R-Type's charge shot.

About consumables, I was thinking about a Gradius system annnnnndddd.... something where you collect items as they fly by and use a key to use them and another key to cycle through them. Like you can have antidote / screen destroyer / temporary speed boost / temporary immunity and then cycle through and use the one you want.

If I had any kind of plot or characters they would appear in the first section of a level. Like the easy part of the level so you could hear yammering without it being distracting, such as when Gradius has the start of the level there are brief waves of enemies instead of all out chaos.

Difficulties would mean bullets, but that's a bridge I'll cross when I get to it. Perhaps difficulty could come in the way of fuel and ammo. Sure you are awesome and great at killing things, but now you need to get your fuel and ammo without shooting it. Easy wouldn't have fuel or ammo or it would deplete less than on hard. Medium wouldn't have destructable fuel and ammo pickups but hard would leave you out of luck... or I'd just make a toggle in the preferences :-)