Oh crazy... I have 3 pickup items (need different graphics) and I just added code to the pickup script to check to see which item i'm picking up, and make changes to ammo, health, or lives.
It's gonna take some getting used to, but the more I learn, the more ideas pop up in the brain. I don't know anything about spawning yet. My next task is to get an enemy to shoot. Right now you just try to not get hit by moving enemies, so it would be nice to have the boss shoot something at me, or at least straight. I have the projectile object drawn and ready to go, I just don't know how to get have AI shoot