Easy spaceship shooter game

[andyvrtl]

I'm new with Love2d, but in this weeks I have been creating a game similar to 1943. I started it with only a tutorial of 200 lines of code, and right now, it has around 1600 lines. This improvement is due to all the people that helps this community to grow, so I am very grateful to be able to share my work with you.
If someone wants to know exactly what the game does, I'll find a detailed explanation in my GitHub repository: https://github.com/andyesprg/shooter-game-with-love2D

I hope you like it!

shooter_game.love

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[milon]

Nicely done!
Here's a quick screenshot since a picture is worth a thousand words.

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I don't know if this is intentional or not, but purple hearts hurt you on "pickup".

Also, my little monitor isn't wide enough for your initial resolution so I simply played it in fullscreen. You're probably aware, but you can get the screen resolution with love.window.getMode(), and use that to ensure the game window will fit onscreen.

[knorke]

good work for a first project

I don't know if this is intentional or not, but purple hearts hurt you on "pickup".

I read the instruction beforehand which say: "...a purple heart will appear, don't touch it! If you do it, you will loose one heart."
And I thought ooh that will be confusing.
Maybe use a skull or bomb graphic?
It should not be nessecary to read a manual to find out whether an object has good or bad effects.

Same with keys layout: Just show the keys on splashscreen. (Players will try common keys like arrows & spacebar but I doubt many will find "b" to shot a bomb, especially since there is nothing ingame that hints towards a secondary weapon)

On death all enemies disappear, I think would be smoother if they continue until offscreen.

Gameplay seems technically okay but a bit lacking. Maybe there would be more depth to it if enemies attacked in formations, currently it is noticeably very random()
Learning the patterns of enemies is usually a big part of scrolling shooters and it also gives a sense of progress.

[freeve4h]

this is great!

[andyvrtl]

I'm so grateful for all your comments and your advices, I have tried to make several improvements as you have told me, I hope you like it.

shooter_game.love

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[andyvrtl]

I have improved this game with a new library called spline, you can see this improvement here:
https://github.com/andyesprg/shooter-game-with-love2D

[Mail_isSWAG]

Really fun! Great Game!