Designing a 2D shooter

Hello Everyone,

My name is Steven, 19 years old, Student developer and hobbyist artist.
and I've been playing with Unity since May 2015.
Before working on bigger things, I've plans to make an easier/shorter game first to test stuff with the engine.

The game is going to be a Platform Shooter, mainly inspired from the Metroid Franchise.
it's still a huge WIP, And I don't know much of the engine yet, I've followed 2 Courses ( [1] [2] ) to help me setting up a basic 2D game. now I've quite the basics of my current idea:

Spoiler: Game Preview

The game was first supposed to be a target smash, but I think I'm directly going for the next step in making a small adventure game, I might use the planned target smash as a demo or something:


Here I was poud of having weapon pickups that change the weapon:

An Boss Enemy that I've planned to program:

And a GUI Test:

Spoiler: Credits

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The Playable Character itself is an OC of mine, called Trex. A pretty casual looking soldier that likes to use energy based guns.
All the textures are made by myself using Paint.NET
I've planned to use FreeSound.org for the soundeffects,
So far no Ideas what I've planned to do with background music.

I'm still new to Unity, so any feedback is greatly appreciated.

 

Your character looks a little - TMNTish without any weapons. Nothing to worry about at this stage - gameplay is most important, but if you have designs for the character to be weaponless - later down the line consider a torso redesign that looks a little less like a turtle.
Nice progress working with the lynda training. I've briefly looked into the Unity training content they offer and it looks to be top shelf stuff.

 

Thanks,

I've noticed that I havn't shown a visible chest part of the character here.
I got an older version of it here, though everything but the chest part is outdated, lel.
But this is what it's supposed to look like:

Spoiler: Older preview image

As you have said, and noticed, I'm more focussing on the gameplay mechanics than the design,
It would be dissappointing if you've already made the artwork for a game that won't work

My subscription on Lynda.com is currently over, but I don't mind that much, the funniest part starts when the training is over, you can start designing by yourself

Thank you for paying attention, it gives me motivation to continue

 

I was referencing this example provided


Yeah - definitely focus - as you are - on design and mechanics - visuals can always be improved and expanded later.

 

Yeah, that one was pretty much an animation test, as the design of with gun differs a lot.
Both the design and animation needs work, I'm aware of that. Thanks