The future of Bug Bite Billy

I thought I should take some time to talk about what is the future for our little bug hunter.  Mind you when this project started it was done as the project of a tutorial about making an over the top shooter, it was never meant to be anything more than a single box shooter with a few waves and a boss to expand my knowledge of game development. But as time has passed the character and project have grown on me and I've decided to continue working on this game until I see it at a point I can say its finished. I have major plans for this game but being a solo dev with a fulltime job and still learning also means my time to work on this game is limited but I am still working on improvements day by day. Even now I'm working on expanding on the map generation of the game. 

But I digress, now the game does have an end goal, there will be a story full of secrets and surprises. However it's not a story that will be linear, you will find it out as you play the game. My intention is to deliver the story through information you find in the game, as you complete your jobs you will upgrade your exterminator license to take on more challenging jobs in higher security areas.  Yes I plan to expand on the maps as well as the rest of the game, for now this is only the start. 

As well I plan on adding a customizable weapons system by the dividing the weapons into three pieces; the stock, the core and the barrel, each one governs a stat of the weapon determining which projectile to shoot, how accurate, how often and how much damage.  At some point you won't get the weapons through the mission, rather you will either get money, or the chance to find a new weapon piece so that you may craft a new weapon to play with. This system is still in development but it will be coming soon. 

Last but not least the enemies. While right now the enemies you fight are the  Koronids, there are plans to expand on this, I have ideas and concepts for at least 2 other types of enemies, one (which ideawise has been my favorite so far) is a hive of necrotic wasps, where you will fight egg filled zombies that bursts into these nasty things that will fly towards you, and another is an oversized faction of sentient mutated gorilla sized beetles. 

All in all there is a lot still in the works for this game and I will do my best to update as often as I can as well as I'm always open to player feedback, seeing that I can't foresee everything now, my best chance is to adapt to change while I work. So keep an eye out on this game and check in often, hopefully the updates will now come more often after restructuring the game from the ground up.