Couple of things going on, when a bomb goes off, time slows down and allows for some interesting play of running into a group of enemies, setting off a bomb and shooting the rest. Might work this mechanic into different weapons.

Implemented some knockback when enemies are shot. Now realizing I need to implement a new collision system to handle more arbitrary shapes so I can build play areas rather than just having a big open area.



The gif is a snippet from a longer video

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3yewwqsdzg9e2p0/bigb-play02.mov-720p.mov

Action shot from Big-B, first screenshot saturday

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4d2ayl0ipo9j5gg/bigb-play01.mov-720p.mov

Here's some footage of the current state of Big-B. Next up is implementing a health system for enemies so the bigger ones take a bit more damage and stop bullets. Right now the bullets rip through everything.

I'm also going to be making a better enemy spawn system and add some obstacles/space junk you can hide behind so there doesn't need to be so many enemies on screen to make it difficult

Alright, added a new bomb today and drastically improved the framerate on repeated restarts.

This is a big gif. The frame stutter is in game and makes more sense when you're playing

Put in some parallax scrolling with layers, feels much much better to just move around in

Started working on this a couple of weeks ago in my spare time with Love2d. Big-B is a WASD + mouse shooter set in space. Managed to get a decent camera going but need to work on it being able to reveal danger/action areas for the player. Also right now it's one level with a ton of randomly generated 'squads' with sets of enemies in them.






I'll keep you updated as I progress

Beginnings of a WASD + mouse shooter in Love2d