Star Wars: Galaxy Battle

A Pygame-based space shooter game featuring Star Wars-inspired ships, epic boss battles, and combo scoring.

Screenshots

The game features procedurally rendered sprites — no external assets required.

Features

• 4 enemy types: TIE Fighter, Interceptor, Bomber, Elite
• Boss battles with 4 attack patterns (spread shot, aimed shot, laser beam, radial burst)
• Combo scoring system (up to 6x multiplier)
• 6 power-up types: health, shield, power, bomb, missile, energy
• Parallax starfield with twinkling and nebula background effects
• Screen shake, explosion particles, engine flame effects
• Difficulty scaling across levels
• High score persistence

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• pygame

Installation

# Create virtual environment (optional)
python -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate

# Install dependencies
pip install pygame

# Run the game
python main.py

Controls

Key	Action
Arrow Keys	Move ship
Space	Shoot
M	Launch homing missile
B	Drop bomb
P	Pause / Resume
ESC	Exit game / Go to main menu

How to Play

1. Press Space on the title screen to start.
2. Destroy enemy ships to earn points.
3. Collect power-ups dropped by destroyed enemies (20% drop chance).
4. Survive and level up — difficulty increases every 25 × level enemies destroyed.
5. Boss ships appear every 45 seconds after reaching level 3.
6. When your health reaches 0, the game ends. Beat your high score!

Scoring

• Base enemy score: 100 (TIE) → 300 (Interceptor) → 500 (Bomber) → 700 (Elite)
• Boss score: 5,000
• Combo multiplier: 1 + min(combo / 10, 5) — chain kills to maximize your score
• Combo resets after 2 seconds without a kill

Power-Ups

Power-Up	Effect
Health (red)	Restores 40 HP
Shield (cyan)	Restores 50 shield
Power (yellow)	Increases weapon level (max 3)
Bomb (orange)	Adds 3 bombs
Missile (purple)	Adds 3 homing missiles
Energy (green)	Fully restores energy

Weapons

• Main Cannon (Space): Auto-fires when held, costs 2 energy per shot. Weapon level 2 fires dual shots, level 3 adds angled spread.
• Missile (M): Homing missile that tracks enemies. Costs 20 energy.
• Bomb (B): Area-of-effect explosion. Instantly kills all enemies within blast radius.

Project Structure

star_war/
├── main.py          # Entry point
├── game.py          # Main game loop, event handling, rendering
├── player.py        # Player ship, movement, stats, shooting
├── enemies.py       # Enemy types, Boss AI
├── weapons.py       # Bullets, missiles, bombs, power-ups
├── effects.py       # Particles, explosions, laser beams
├── background.py    # Parallax stars, nebula clouds
├── config.py        # Screen settings, colors, fonts, constants
└── highscore.txt    # Persisted high score (runtime)

License

This is a fan project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd. or Disney. All Star Wars related materials are property of their respective owners.