Build a Space-Shooter Game

Top-down arcade-pilot survivors game — Vampire-Survivors loop with twin-stick flight. Canonical game: Starblight. The machine-readable companion is blueprint.json (the Build Plan engine reads it to match a game's genre and order the MVP worklist).

Required asset classes (★ = MVP)

• ★ Sprites — player interceptor ship, 5 enemy types (grunt/swarmling/weaver/spitter/elite), 1 three-phase boss.
• ★ UI — XP bar, integrity/HP bar, upgrade cards, boss health bar. Later: main menu, drydock shop, results.
• ★ VFX — kill-pop particles, screen-shake trauma, thruster trails, boss-phase bursts, parallax starfield.
• ★ Music/SFX — ambience loop + weapon-fire/hit SFX. Later: victory + boss themes.

MVP slice

Mouse-follow ship + top-down camera (parallax starfield) → 5 escalating enemy types → 5 auto-fire weapons (tier-1) → enemy→XP-gem→magnet loop → level-up draft (1-of-3) → 3-phase boss on a run timer → drydock meta-shop → HUD (XP, integrity, cards, boss health).