Cosmos Combat

Cosmos Combat is a 2D wave-based space shooter where the player battles enemy ships and meteors across escalating waves. Destroying enemies and meteors drops loot — weapons, health pickups, and power-ups — rewarding aggressive play. I built the entire game solo in Unity 2D, designing the wave spawning logic, loot drop system, and all enemy movement patterns in C#.

• → Wave manager system that spawns varied enemy types with increasing frequency and health per wave
• → Loot drop system with weighted randomization — different enemies have different drop tables
• → Multiple weapon types with unique fire patterns, switchable at runtime from dropped pickups
• → Enemy ship AI with basic homing and strafing behaviour patterns
• → Meteor spawner with randomized sizes, speeds, and trajectories for unpredictable obstacles
• → Health and shield system with visual feedback (screen flash, UI bar updates)

Cosmos Combat pushed me to think about game systems as interconnected modules. The loot drop system required a clean separation between the enemy class and the drop logic — learning to use ScriptableObjects to define drop tables here was a breakthrough that I now use in almost every project.