Weapon Overview

In space, the player is equipped with a turret on their ship which they can use to fend off enemies or remove obstacles. This weapon can be upgraded and temporarily replaced by power-up weapons. All of the various turrets’ behaviors are currently handled by the TurretTurnScript class, which has a variety of customizable variables that can be adjusted to allow for different weapon types.

Special Items

Throughout the levels, players can find various power ups by killing enemies and fishing. These power up items will enhance the players abilities, namely their armament. These special weapons are roughly 1.5x stronger than the default gun, and have different abilities. However, they also have limited ammunition, and will become nothing more than scrap once their ammunition has depleted, at which point the player will revert back to the trusty default weapon.

Once the player leaves the sector, any remaining special ammunition and special weapons are turned into scrap and sold.

Ammunition Crate

• Gives ammunition to the player for use by Special Weapons, which can be picked up.

Shotgun

• Carries 200 bullets and fires 8 small projectiles in bursts.
• Has a short range
• Can be “steadied” if the player keeps their aim still, increasing the bullet velocity and range, as well as decreasing the bullet spread

Minigun

• Carries 500 low-damage bullets and fires at a very rapid pace
• Has medium range and high damage-per-second
• Slows the player down while firing