So many ideas, so little time. Lets start with this one! INVASION

I spent around 3 months (well 6 months on and off as had a house move in the middle) making me feature rich and complete game LANDER (https://neonlander.com) which you can find on this page. It was meant as a learning experience to help me understand possibilities, structure and workflow. The message count was almost 1500 messages of back and forth, with 650 edits (the rest would have been me working with Lovable in plan mode). It was a massive undertaking. But with 4 kids and this being a niche game (albeit one I'm proud of), my next focus is on hugely streamlining the process. So that I can have fun prototypes up and running within ab hour or two max, before deciding whether to progress them further. So with that in mind I started looking at trying to get feature rich games within one or two prompts (with then a few more prompts likely needed just to correct anything glaring). My Hyperoids Game was the first to fully utilise this (https://https://hyper-friendly-shapes.lovable.app).

The next in line is INVASION. The core game was up and running in two prompts (although the second prompt was automated so I only needed to give one prompt to get the product. I've subsequently given another 6 or 7 prompts to tweak a couple of control elements etc. The mad thing is, with this process I didn't even read what it was going to do, apart from me seeing there had been a competition here recently related to space invaders, so I used that as the starting point. This means when playing the game for the first few times (and even now), I had no idea what the power ups would do, that there was a smart bomb (massively overpowered hut guaranteed to make you laugh), and even some music for the boss levels. Oh, and there are 60 levels. Obviously to take it further it would need balancing and some play testing, but right now, its actually super fun to play. LANDER took me 6 months on and off. This took me less than 90 minutes!!!!!!!!!!! Works on PC and touchscreen and has full PWA compliance. So if you're running it on an iphone or ipad then add to home screen and run from there and it will look and play like a native app https://hyper-invasion.lovable.app/

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