Intergalactic Portal Defense (in Alpha)

This game started out as a lab project but I really enjoyed the basic idea of the game and so I decided to continue to work on it outside of class in my free time. Intergalactic Portal Defense is a multitasking game where the player has to switch between ships to shoot down enemy ships and asteroids to protect the portal to Earth. 

Things I learned: 

- I learned some new programming mechanics like how to switch characters with a single button, how to set player boundaries, and how to make a reload timer

- I used some new effects and filters in Photoshop 

- This was my first big solo project and being more art focused a lot of programming, design, balancing and just the whole process of what it takes to build a solo project was learned and reinforced 

- I am going to add pick-ups such ass multi-shot, change portal size(bigger and smaller), increase enemy speed, absorption(kill enemy by colliding) and many more

- I am going to add more levels where it progressively gets harder and harder throughout

- I want to change the art for all the ships and create new enemies and player ships

- Character unlock and select menu where you can unlock characters by challenges and select them before the game starts

- My goal is to release this on PC

To the right are images of the current game.

The video below is the current state of the game.