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You are trapped in a spooky library and need to return the books to escape!  Beware, you are not alone!

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Recently added powerups to my  shooter + endless runner game TheWedge

That is probably the last major gameplay feature.  It was easier than I thought and even though my code is disorganized it is easy to sift through to determine what is happening where and to insert the powerup modifiers.

The powerups required 3 new UI components.  The first is an "Announcement" that displays saying what powerup you picked up, the second is a "shield" indicator which I made as an animated border around the life bar and the 3rd is a countdown timer indicating which powerup is running and how much time left there is.

Since I already had code for a countdown timer for the player's life I could re-use that.  I did my usual "make it work first, worry about maintenance later" method so if I add more "timer based" powerups I i'll have to refactor a bit but what I have works for now.

For balance I made the powerups appear roughly once a minute in what is usually a 3-4 minute game.  When I play it the powerups certainly make the game easier but I assume I'm going to be playing my game more than any other player.

I had to force myself to stop at only 4 different kinds even though as I was making them all sorts of ideas for more came up. 

Overall I'm pretty happy with the results.   If anyone has questions about how I implemented anything in the game let me know and I can walk through the code with you.

please let me know if you have any ideas for how I can improve the game

A bit of a necro but what is the problem with Unity 2d?

Just released my first in (hopefullly) a long line of asset-less games (though I did cheat on the floor).  TheWedge is a hybrid endless runner/rail shooter, mouse over targets to destroy them, use A and D to avoid obstacles.  Destroying targets gets points and earns extra time, hitting obstacles loses time.   The game is fairly chill until your speed increases to over 30ish.

I think my current high score is around 80k.

Let me know if anyone has problems or comments or ideas for future development.  Also I'm happy to share code or discuss any development techniques for features anyone is interested in.