This is a screenie of my progress.

Twin stick shooter, 1-2 (expandable to more) players.

Each player has a sort of ‘drifting’ movement, a la Asteroids, as do the circles in the background.

If you move over a coloured circle, you can right-click to ‘pick’ that colour. You then keep that colour (I call it the “powerColor”), and it’s displayed in the centre of your avatar (so far just a circle inside another circle). See the orange blob in the screenie above. You can see that I got it from the mix of the nearby red and green circles.

Each colour gives you a power-up. Right now, redness gives you a speed boost, proportional to how much red there is in your powerColor.

Next, I plan to implement powers for blueness and greenness. My idea at the moment is that blueness makes your shots stronger (I haven’t implemented shooting yet) and greenness slowly heals you over time. If you have a mix of all three then you get all three powers at once (so white is the Holy Grail, only found by mixing RGB from at least 3 bright circles). I’ll probably make your powerColour fade gradually to black, so you have to continually seek out the circles.

I’m enjoying everyone else’s progress updates – keep them coming!

Tags: java slick2d eclipse