Making your first video game, you made the very first step into the world of game development! Cheers! But don’t settle on that! The job of a game developer is to constantly study, play, and make games. So let’s start a new project!
In this and the next chapter, we are going to create a game belonging to one of the most popular and important genres of the video games history: shoot ‘em up!
A shoot ‘em up (or shmup) game consists in the player facing multiple enemies shooting ‘em up (you don’t say?) and dodging their bullets.
It’s still debated which design elements are canonical ...
