Orbital tower defense game placing turrets to protect a central citadel.
Astral Citadel is an offline orbital tower defense strategy game.
This game features concentric orbit turret placement to protect a central citadel.
- Splash screen with orbital radar sweep animation transitioning to main menu
- Main menu screen with Start Game, How to Play, Settings, and About navigation
- How to play screen explaining orbital placement, enemy types, and citadel hull
- Settings screen providing toggles for audio synthesis, music, and haptic feedback
- About screen showing version 20.20.20 and in-memory architecture details
- Real-time orbital defense loop built on hardware-accelerated Android SurfaceView
- Central citadel base with 100 hit point hull health and visual damage states
- Concentric circular orbital lanes supporting dynamic defense turret deployment
- Tap-to-build placement system deploying automated defense turrets along orbital tracks
- Automated turret targeting calculating nearest enemy trajectories and projectile firing
- Multiple enemy drone classes with distinct speeds, health pools, and point values
- Procedural sound generator using AudioTrack for plasma blasts, impacts, and alerts
- Custom 2D particle system rendering plasma explosions and projectile impact sparks
- Dynamic camera shake feedback triggered upon citadel hull damage and explosions
- Energy currency system rewarding energy credits per destroyed enemy to fund upgrades
- In-game pause fragment supporting real-time game freeze, resume, and restart
- Wave completion screen showing survival wave count, enemies eliminated, and score
- Game over screen displaying total defense statistics with Retry and Menu actions
- SessionData singleton tracking high scores and wave progression in active memory