more October 26
Are side-guns going to be done as separate sprites? Or the main ship's sprite modified? The way it's looking, separate sprites – not sure how ships of different sizes / shapes will take the same side-gun, but that's Mike's problem. As much as possible should be put in the Ship class. Certainly the stuff about the Attachables. Technically, enemies can take missles now. Just need to edit the fire methods. *I should have generic fire methods for all ships. Take either a direction or a target, and that's it. Works for both the player and the enemies.
Are the upgrades for the player & the enemies going to be exactly the same? control: 3 buttons: (A) left-gun (B) right-gun (C) both NO center-gun? *The center-gun is the basic, no-side-gun weapon. It's replaced by the first powerup the player recieves. It'd be interesting if the player could somehow power this weapon up, by avoiding all weapon pickups. But how?
Need a HUD to display: score, power of each weapon **what about varying qualities of each powerup? ie the "level" of the weapon based on how many like powerups, and then secondary parameters...
I can get rid of the save-state function, right? Do I really need it? unless I erase after I've updated the positions...