ChromaShift

Space Shoot‑‘Em‑Up (Trophés NSI Entry)

A compact, class‑less space shooter built with Pygame to showcase basic game‑development skills while adhering to the competition’s restriction against object‑oriented programming. 

WARNING : REALLY LOUD

Core Gameplay

• You play as a ship that as to go through waves of enemies, trying to hit your latest high score
• Switch your shield colours to protect yourself from incoming projectiles
• Dash to dodge bullets and gain a lot of territory in a short time

Commands

• Move with ZQSD
• Switch the shield's color with the right button
• Dash with the left button
  
• You can toggle fire with F

Enemy Types & Behaviors

1. Basic enemies – bounce off screen edges and shoot.
2. Meteors – charge straight.
3. Octopuses – emit a laser aimed at the player’s position.
4. Rockets – continuously home in on the player’s ship.
5. Mother ships – spawn additional enemies during combat.
6. Turrets – rotate to track the player.

Each enemy is implemented as a dictionary‑based entity, allowing custom update routines without traditional classes.

Systems & Features

• Custom “class‑like” architecture using dictionaries and the __dict__ attribute to simulate initialization, methods, and inheritance where needed.
• Menu system includes a pause screen and a Game‑Over overlay.
• Health & damage handling for the player.
• Dynamic enemy spawn based on the current level.
• Version‑control backups stored on GitHub for iterative development.
• Saved high score.

AI disclosure

I am not really proud of it but we generated the songs using AI