Dragons!

Level 9 of my scrolling shooter consists of the inevitable dragon minions. Hopefully, when there are some better graphics in the game, they will be pretty cool looking, but for now they are lizards with semi circle wings. The two dragon minion these: the guardian class the dragonfire class. The guardian minions are orange, and they shoot normal bullets (nothing special about them) but, unlike every other minion type in the game, they take two hits to kill. The first hit will turn the guardian a deeper red color, similar to how the player turns red for a second when they get hit, only the guardian doesn't change back. Once they are red, if they get hit again they are killed. So, they are basically a normal minion with a little more beef. The second class, the dragonfire, is a green dragon. The unique thing about these guys is that they shoot 2 bullets straight down, but one of them is at a much slower speed than the other, so when there are a few of them on the screen at once, you get a hard-to-dodge wall of bullets. Neither of these minion types are quite as exciting as some of the ones from previous levels, but they are actually pretty hard to deal with.