Infinity Space drops the player’s ship into a hostile sector and the only way out is through. Waves of enemies and asteroids fill the play area, and survival means scavenging ship parts off everything you destroy. Every sector is procedurally populated, so no two runs spawn the same fight. Clear enough of the sector and a portal opens, dropping you into the next one — with a permanent upgrade screen between runs for research.

The project was originally built in Unity 2018.3, with the last meaningful work done back in 2017, before being resumed in June 2026 on Unity 6 (6000.3.17f1). The gameplay core — ship movement, weapons, AI steering, procedural spawning — survived the jump largely intact, but the surrounding systems didn’t: the old Input Manager, OnGUI health bars, BinaryFormatter saves, and Canvas-based menus all needed replacing. The HUD and every menu screen now run on UI Toolkit instead of Canvas/uGUI, input goes through Unity’s new Input System with gamepad support, and saves are plain JSON.

Modernization is still ongoing, but the bigger focus now is the game loop itself — progress, stats, and enemies. With the old syntax errors and rotted APIs out of the way, expanding the game toward where I actually want to take it is far more feasible than it would’ve been getting hung up on bugs first. The design document and backlog both live in the repo, so the shape of where the game is headed — and what’s blocking it — stays out in the open rather than locked in someone’s head.

Why

This one’s old — a project from years back that got shelved when life got in the way. The last meaningful work on it was back in 2017. Picking it back up in 2026 wasn’t really planned; it was more that AI tooling finally made resuming a half-finished Unity project from nearly a decade ago actually feasible. Instead of staring at a codebase I half-remembered and giving up, I could audit it, see exactly what had rotted (deprecated APIs, old input system, BinaryFormatter), and work through the list methodically. The itch to finish it never went away — what changed was having a practical way back in.

And honestly? I’m pretty excited about it. Excited enough that I can already feel myself wanting to overcommit and overdo it on scope, the same way I always seem to with side projects. Going in aware of that tendency this time, for whatever good that’ll do me.