What's New?

Well in this update the game has been made a little prettier with some cool background art and menus. New weapons are also a thing so you can rain a more varied hail of bullets (or missiles) on your enemies. 

Menu Functionality

To spice up the game so that it's more than just a level that doesn't have an end state there has been a menu and controls page added with some tasty AI generated background art, The background art was generated by using the Gencraft art generation tool at; https://gencraft.com/. Here are some sneak peeks at some art that may eventually wind up in the game:

The main menu has three options at the moment; New Game, Controls, and Quit Game. The controls menu only currently displays the hard coded control scheme for the game on both keyboard and controller with no added customisation functions as yet. It will also return the player to the main menu on button click. Once either the player or the end level boss dies the game will return to the main menu screen after a short delay. At a later date this will lead to an end game screen with high scores displayed though this is not implemented yet.

Make it go BOOM!

This update also included a pickup system which will allow the player to destroy certain structures and vehicles in the game to release either a Weapon, some ammo or a loot item that grants extra score. The weapon implemented currently is a missile which fires more slowly than the main gun armament but has much less ammo. OH YEAH! AMMO! There is now an ammo counter for each weapon shown above the health and Shield UI. be careful not to spam fire too much as the ammo pickups in the game are not assured. 

Each of the supply trucks on the map will drop a randomized item when destroyed either ammo or a loot item.  

What's Next?

Well I'm glad you asked if development time permits up next you can expect to see some more improvements to the final graphics of the game, more levels, enemies, bosses prehaps even a small cutscene to introduce the game. But one of the major items to come next will be sound! It's no good flying around blowing stuff up if you can't hear the thunder of gunfire or the music blasting into your eardrums.