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Space SHMUP - Part 2 - ReadMe File

Author: Jackson Cartwright

Modified: 2025-02-16

0. What is the link to your project on itch.io?

  https://sup3r87.itch.io/spaceshmuppart2-jackson-cartwright
 

1. What are the controls to your game? How do we play?

  -WASD to strafe the ship around in the appropriate directions.
-Space to shoot.
 

2. What creative additions did you make? How can we find them?

  -Rotated the entire game 90 degrees to turn it into a sidescroller (player movement adjusted to make moving feel natural).
-Replaced all assets with hand-traced vector art (made in Figma).
-Added a title logo & starting screen.
-Graphical enhancements including global bloom and trails for some enemies (a tiny bit of code was needed to preserve the trails as they went offscreen).
-Added music and sound FX from a past hobby project, GALACDRIVE (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/galacdrive/id6449262666).
 

3. Any assets used that you didn't create yourself?

  The music was made for an old hobby project named GALACDRIVE - it is a project owned by me, but the sounds & music made for it were made by team members Logan Kinoshita & Yatas.
 

4. Did you receive help from anyone outside this class or from anyone in this class that is not in a group with you?

  I mentioned my frustration at one point, trying to solve a problem, to Paul Poorman, but I ended up solving the problem by myself a moment later.
 

5. Did you get help from any AI Code Assistants?

  None.
 

6. Did you get help from any online websites, videos, or tutorials?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOyb0_rFA1A
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1189284785668093844/randomiser
https://discussions.unity.com/t/flashlight-script-help/187415/3
https://discussions.unity.com/t/audio-source-referencing-from-player-controller/523506/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln4ilSVR1Ug

 

7. What trouble did you have with this project?

  There was a StackOverflowException error in relation to the powerup script. I had to trace the problem and tape on a fix, but it took a lot of trial and error, as well as hair pulling to get there..
 

8. Is there anything else we should know?

  Evidently with the time of submission, I had trouble cobbling together the time for this project. I've also noticed that the tutorial videos are just not that fun to go through - I work on my own projects in a different engine (Flowlab) and even there, I dislike tutorials. They fill me with about a tenth of the joy I get from making the project modifications (but that's by my nature, not Jeremy Bond's fault). I guess I just wish we could do more of the fun modification stuff somehow.