v0.5.1: Items

I Have Added Items

Whenever you level up, the round now pauses and you are shown a Level Up screen. You can pick one of the three offered Items or reroll (for gold) to be shown a fresh selection. The items are permanent and have different effects.

Moving forward, Upgrades will all be in the shop and they will all modify your ship's stats. You can purchase Upgrades at the end of each round. Items are free and you get to pick one each time you level up.

Here are the Items I have added to the game:

1. Whenever you land a Critical Hit, you heal for 1 HP. Note that this is not when you fire a critical bullet but rather when that bullet actually hits something.
2. When you shoot, you fire an additional projectile, but your damage is reduced by 1/3rd. This is a fixed version of the old Projectile Count upgrade, which has now been removed. I have finally implemented an architecture where I can affect the player both positively and negatively at the same time.
3. When you are hit by a projectile, you have a 10% chance to deflect the bullet and take no damage. These stack multiplicatively, so you can technically never reach 100% deflection chance. (10 of these means you have about a 35% chance to take damage. 20 reduces this to 12%. 50 of them is 0.5% to be hit.)
4. Your bullets have a 10% chance to pierce all enemies. Same math as above -- 10 of these is a 65% chance to pierce, etc.
   
5. You get +20% more XP. This is also multiplicative -- two results in a 44% increase, since you're multiplying by 1.2 twice.
6. You get +20% more gold from destroying enemies. Same deal as the XP boost. Note that this does not change anything about Interest, only the coins that drop from destroyed ships.

Next Up

I have to iterate on the UI for the Level Up screen. I would like to continue to show it to the player right away (pausing the game, like Vampire Survivors) rather than switch to banking the levels and having the player redeem them at the end of the round (like Brotato). To support that, I need the screen to be as fluid and not jarring as possible.

I would like the game to have around 30 items by the time I feel comfortable releasing it. Maybe 20. But certainly much more than 6. These 6 were pretty easy, and I can add some more easy ones, but then I'll get more creative. I am going to be intentional about supporting actual builds since so much of the fun in this genre comes from synergies. A suite of items that do stuff when you heal, a suite of items that heal you. That sort of stuff.