Weekly game update 2

This week, I added a few new things and made the game more playable, the first thing was a better player movement script. To make this script, I used the paddle movement script from my pong game and modified it to move the player left and right as well as up and down. The changes are with the new script, you can no longer crash the plane into the ground and get it stuck because the speed was changed to a lower value to add a bit more precise movement, there is now multi directional movement as shown in my bad attempt at this gif, (it is smoother than this in game)

Also seen in this gif is a new background from Free War Pixel Art Game Backgrounds by Free Game Assets (GUI, Sprite, Tilesets) (itch.io) this background suited the war like theme and the darkish destroyed buildings vs the bright moon gives it a nice touch. I made the long white rectangles at the top and bottom only slightly visible, so they do not intrude on to the screen too much like seen in this picture.

Another change was suggested to me in the testing session was to fix the plane floating down when you are not moving the plane or touching the controls. That was as simple as setting the rigidbody2d settings to zero. There was not any other fixes suggested to me during that session apart from people liking the improved movement. Next week, I plan to find another enemy plane sprite asset and use that to create enemies and get bullets to fire at the enemies, but before that I need to get the camera to start scrolling across the screen so there is some level of challenge to make it more game like. Apart from what was mentioned above, there was nothing else really added this week.

Reference for the background

Free Game Assets 2019, Free War Pixel Art Game Backgrounds by Free Game Assets (GUI, Sprite, Tilesets), itch.io, viewed 24 April 2023, <https: free-game-assets.itch.io="" free-war-pixel-art-game-backgrounds="">.</https:>