flyover-game 0.11

Shoot as many enemy planes as you can before they get you!

Flyover

Fly your plane and shoot down as many enemy planes as possible! A simple pygame game implementing a 2D scrolling map.

Created to explore scrolling maps, and Class inheritance. The shell of a game is complete and there's lots of room for improvement.

Installation

• Download the code
• pip install pygame
• run main.py

Controls

• Arrow keys to turn, speed up/slow down
• Space to shoot

Features

• Tiled map (entities bounce off the map edge)
• Player plane centred in screen
• Enemy planes with basic AI
• Sound effects

Code improvements needed

• Ability to press 2 buttons at once
• Fix tests

Ideas for more features

• Player health (not a 1 hit kill system)
• High score system
• Different turning speeds for different plane speeds
• Limited fuel and ammo, restock at a base
• Background music
• Mini map
• Static defences with homing missiles