At the Edge of the Inner System

Some small visual tweaks:

• The stars in the background have some depth (took me way too long to figure out how to make some of the stars transparent using imagemagick then ended up making the stars transparent in godot)
• The flame on the ship is only shown when moving forward
• The range indicator is less opaque

I have made the lasers have a range indicated by the green ring around the player. At the beginning of the game, the range is very small. However, it will be able to be increased in the new upgrade menu, including better movement. This can be accessed when a ‘run’ ends, by moving back to the starting area and holding down E (none of the upgrades do anything yet, though).

Added some lights and redesigned the player normal map to look more curved, as well as the asteroid normal maps. I also added a green start area.

I added a game over screen also showing the money you collected on your run. Now the player can die, with particle effects :).
I also changed the font to be more pixely.

Lighting! The asteroids now have an actual texture along with a normal map. I spent way too long playing around in aseprite and affinity trying to get a normal map looking right then ended up generating one with blender. The player normal maps I did manually, though.

Asteroids can now take damage and when you destroy them, you gain 10 coins. The player also now has health, and collisions damage both asteroids and the player, although when the player’s health reaches 0 nothing happens yet. Also, lasers now have particles.

Reworked the asteroid spawning. It now uses a chunk-based system and asteroids spawn in clumps based on a noise map. It took me way to long to figure out that it wasn’t working because the asteroids were deleting themselves :).

Added lasers! And physics, but more importantly, lasers!

I added asteroids and a player sprite. The asteroid spawning mechanism is very simple and sometimes spawn while inside the camera’s view (somehow), so I’ll need to rework that.

Implemented player movement and a simple starry background generated by ImageMagick.
Now I have Godot tumbling through space.