Galaxy Shooter

The galaxy is under attack.

Take control of your spacecraft and survive against endless waves of hostile alien ships in this classic 2D arcade space shooter. Destroy enemies, collect powerful upgrades and see how long you can stay alive as the battlefield becomes increasingly chaotic.

Controls

Android

• Touch and drag to move your spaceship.

Features

• Endless survival gameplay
• Three collectible power-ups:
  • Shield
  • Triple Shot
  • Speed Boost
• Three-life system inspired by classic arcade games
• Local high score tracking
• Progressively increasing difficulty
• Quick restart after defeat

Gameplay

Your mission begins in deep space with nothing but your ship and a lone asteroid standing in your way. Destroying it marks the beginning of your survival.

Enemy spacecraft will begin invading the battlefield, growing more dangerous the longer you survive. Collect power-ups to improve your chances, avoid enemy attacks, and keep your score climbing.

How long can you survive?

Project G — The G Entry in the GAD Series

Galaxy Shooter is Project G in the Game Alphabet Development (GAD) series, my long-term personal challenge to develop 26 games, each representing a different letter of the English alphabet.

The projects are not developed alphabetically. Instead, each one is chosen based on the skills, genres, mechanics or technologies I want to explore at that point in my journey as a game developer.

About This Project

Galaxy Shooter was developed while following the Udemy course "The Ultimate Guide to Game Development with Unity (Official)" by GameDevHQ as a learning project.

The course provided the core gameplay framework, assets and systems used throughout the game. After completing the tutorial, I expanded upon the original project by implementing my own gameplay balancing mechanic.

Rather than keeping enemy movement at a constant speed, enemies gradually become faster over time. Starting at normal speed, they continuously accelerate throughout the first 200 seconds of gameplay until reaching three times their original speed. This creates a steadily increasing challenge and encourages players to adapt their strategy the longer they survive.

While Galaxy Shooter served as a learning project, it also represents another milestone in my development journey and demonstrates my understanding of Unity fundamentals, gameplay programming, balancing, UI systems, game states and mobile game development.

Availability

Galaxy Shooter was primarily developed for Android.

Other platform builds can be made available upon request.

Notes

• This is a non-commercial portfolio project.
• The game will always remain free to play.
• Feedback, bug reports and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Good luck, pilot. The galaxy won't defend itself.