Shane Smith·May 23, 2024Making a Homing Missile Part 1/2: 2D ShooterObjective: Make a homing missile that will follow the closest enemy.
Michael Lam·Sep 26, 2023Creating a Homing Laser Power Up for my GameToday, I added a new power up that will change the player’s lasers to home in on the closest target. This was a lot harder than I expected…
Sean Duggan·Jun 19, 2023Smart Enemies — Or at least one who’ll look backThe next task was to create an enemy type that knows when it’s behind the player, and fires a weapon backwards. Detecting when the enemy is…
Sean Duggan·Jun 8, 2023Secondary Fire PowerupSo, the next task is to add another secondary fire power-up (in addition to the triple lasers) and to make it a rare power-up. The latter…