Space Power Defender

A wave-based space shooter where players defend four power cores from incoming enemies. Each core grants a different spaceship ability, including an energy shield, side projectiles, increased speed and faster regeneration. Losing a core temporarily weakens the spaceship, while surviving additional waves allows players to recover lost powers. Fight increasingly difficult enemy waves, protect your abilities and survive as long as possible.

• Gameplay
• AI
• Pixel Art

• Designed and developed the entire game solo for my first Ludum Dare game jam, including programming, pixel art, music and sound effects
• Implemented a wave-based enemy spawning system with increasingly difficult encounters and varied wave compositions
• Developed enemy behavior variations including sine-wave movement, spinning movement and different attack ranges and fire rates
• Created a power-core system where each core grants a distinct spaceship ability and losing a core removes its associated power
• Implemented power recovery after every three waves, encouraging players to survive while temporarily weakened
• Developed spaceship movement, mouse-based aiming, shooting and a player-controlled energy shield
• Added combat feedback through screen shake, damage blinking and animated cursor effects
• Iterated on combat balance, enemy health, projectile interactions and wave progression through multiple post-jam updates
• Created all pixel art using Aseprite, composed music in LMMS and produced sound effects with bfxr