29 APR 2020:
- Spent most of the day wrestling with arrays. Thankfully I got some decent results that I can play around with. Above was one of the more promising ones. I like how the lasers shoot faster and cover a larger area.
I'm still not sure how they make the crazy bullet patterns you see in more hardcore shooter games (like Touhou), but I hope to figure it out shortly. A Touhou-style bullet-hell game is not what I'm going for, but some of the shot patterns and concepts are still good to keep in mind, especially for boss fights.