The lost theorem

The lost theorem is a small game made by myself as a project for university's python course. This means I made the game within 2 months nearly entirely from scratch.

And before you start judging by the visuals, I am gonna say that I strongly focused on gameplay in this project

Okay, so what's the game about, it is a 2D space shooting roguelike, similar to space invaders, but made in a more modern way with more advanced physics and quite unique shooting system.

The game splits into 2 phases, battle and upgrade. in the battle phase you have to duel against a wave of enemies, once every enemy is defeated, the game goes to upgrade phase, where  player can choose an upgrade from the randomized pool. Upgrades itself mostly affects shooting and can synergize with each other. After upgrading game goes back to even stronger wave of enemies, and so on. So the goal is just to survive as long as you can, oh and possibly became totally overpowered.

Upgrades:

They only affects player stats, however do not get deceived, upgrades can still change your weapon into stuff like: shotgun, minigun, sniper gun etc. by only affecting your stats, I just made a ton of stats for that

Shooting system:

Your weapon has a magazine, thus it means there are 2 different stats dependent for rate of fire (delay, for time between shots and recharge for time to reload a magazine)

Additionally weapon has "multishot" stat, that shows how many projectiles is going to be released every single shot.

However, ammo depletes per projectile, not per shot, so having let's say "triple shot" means that every shot costs 3 ammo.

This leads to conclusion, that too much multishot will just eat through ammo and cause constant reloading.

What's up with the name?:

well, as a project in studies at some point I decided that it may be fun to orient game's theme around various programming and math concepts, so from the plot you are recollecting thoughts about already-existing theorems, and realizing their existence makes you more powerful.

You can edit the game!:

I made all upgrades being loaded from a single, unprotected .txt file. This means that if you want you can easily change upgrades or add your own.

Further instructions (like controls, how to make custom upgrades) included in .txt file among the game files