Looking ahead – the completed project

Before we start work on the twin-stick shooter game, let's see what the completed project looks like and how it works. As shown in Figure 3.1, the game will contain one scene where the player controls a spaceship that can shoot oncoming enemies:

Figure 3.1 – The completed twin–stick shooter game

The directional keyboard arrows, and WASD, move the spaceship around the level, and it will always turn to face the mouse pointer. Clicking the left mouse button will fire ammo.

Now that we have an idea of what we're aiming for, we can start the project.