1. Joseph Dowden Philip Ho James Gedarovich

2.  Pick up and play game  Images scroll vertically  Bitmapped ground  Sprites  Ship  Hazards  Bullets  Power-ups  Bosses

3. Space Invaders

4. 19421943

5. Ikaruga Castle of Shikigami 3

6. Tyrian

7.  Blazing Lazers  Borderline  Dragon Spirit  Guardian Legend  Gunbird  Life Force  Radiant Silvergun  Sonic Wings

8.  One demo level  Primary Weapon  Secondary Weapon  Shield power  Generator  Power transfer  Parallaxing  Enemies  End-level boss

10. Pirates have taken control of a life form that is the size of a planet. This creature has natural defense systems that the pirates have manipulated so that they can use the living planet as both a base and as a weapon. The defense systems automatically activate against large targets so a full fleet assault on the creature would be ineffectual. To combat this threat a single high powered ship will have to disable the defense systems so that the fleet is able to destroy it.

11. Player Ship

12. Terrain Hazard

14. Boss

15.  Programmed in Java  Any OS with proper JRE  Reasonable hardware

16.  Mouse  Keyboard  Gamepad using jinput?

17.  Title Screen  Level Selection  Game Loop  Backgrounds  Enemies  Bullets  Player  Overlays

18.  Two player support  Networking  Additional levels  Power up acquisition