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[Terry]

Right here! :D

I've updated the game. Managed to fix a few of the bigger issues that were bugging me. Lots and lots of things have changed, so it's worth checking out again even if you've already played it! Here are a few of the bigger changes:

 * Online Highscores: There's an online highscore table available in the game, on alternativly here!
 * Better Balancing: There's a much less steep difficulty curve now, with 25 increasing levels of difficulty instead of three. Also, the whole game is generally easier (and you now only need to beat 250 waves instead of 400).
 * New Enemies: There are two new enemies now, which should help mix up some of the patterns.
 * Graphical Fixes: I implemented the shrapnel particles from Annabelle's sprite sheet! Also fixed up the background a bit...
 * Low Shield Indicator: When you're low on shield power, you'll flash and an alarm will sound. A few people were telling me that there wasn't enough warning when you were in trouble, so hopefully that helps fix that.
* Nukes: An extra powerup allows you to use nukes, which clears the screen when things get too hectic. Use them by pressing C.
 * Voice Narration: A robotic lady will tell you how many waves you have left to go :D

There are a few other things, but that's mostly it Hopefully this version is more fun to play than the last one! Hope to see some of you on the highscore tables :D

(on that note, online highscores are a first for me, so please let me know if something doesn't work as it should )

[Crash]

This is fun! I don't know if this is a bug or if it's intentional, but after a random crash (sorry, I'm not sure what caused it) it stopped updating my first high score and started a new one.

[Annabelle Kennedy]

yaay! its all done.

i will play it very soon indeed <:

[Noyb]

Awesome! Feels a lot more balanced now, although the speed increase definitely surprised me.

[Melly]

 

This is so much better than the last version. I can actually get to wave 80 or so in this one and I know I can beat it with practice.

Awesomesaucer.

EDIT: Oh, and it crashed for me after I've been playing it for a while. My specs are Pentium 4 2.4Ghz NVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 Windows XP Professional SP2.

[Annabelle Kennedy]

uh oh it crashed on me too!

but it plays wonderfully! and feels much more balanced.

[Terry]

I'm really sorry to hear that it's crashing on people I don't have a clue what's causing it at the minute, but I'll do my best to fix it as soon as possible. Any clues you can give me to what you were doing when it crashed would be a big help (i.e. what state was the game in? were you shooting? using the shield? what enemies were on screen? did you collect something? use the bomb? were you playing fullscreen or windowed?)

Sorry about this

[Melly]

I can't remember what I was doing exactly. I was in the middle of the actual playing-the-game, and I was windowed.

If it happens again I'll be sure to remember what I was doing.

[Jeferson R. Silva]

I'm a big fan of bullet-hell games and I love this game! 

I've been playing it a lot since I downloaded it and I like how it is simple, challenging and fun. (I wish I could code a game like this in a day.)
On my best run so far I managed to reach wave 149 and I think I can go a bit further before going my dodging skills fail me :D

About the crashes, I gathered some info that may help fixing it:

• I'm running it on Vista 64-bits and the game crashes in both windowed and fullscreen modes.
• Looks like it happens when you are killing lots of things like those big clusters of red ships.
• All crashes happened when I was moving and shooting. No bombs used or shields being activated (I think).

[Terry]

Ok, I think I've got it :D Turns out it had to do with a dodgy enemy spawn! This new version is exactly the same as the old, but it shouldn't crash:

Self Destruct (with crash bug fix)

I also cleared out some of the duplicates in the highscore table that occured because of this This new version will ask you to create a new profile at startup (i.e. enter your name), if you want to use your old scores copy out the profile.dat file from the data directory into the new one and it should carry on from there

Thanks for the comments, everybody, I really appreciate all the feedback And it's awesome to see so many people in the highscores :D

[Melly]

Still crashes. I'll try it out a bit more and see if there's anything I always do for it to crash, but it's hard to be aware of that since the game's so fast-paced and you need to 'zone-out' in order to get far in it.

[Border]

So sharp@!i'm loving it !:insert McD smillie:
No crash except me dying  everytime :D
Just got to wave 30..

[Terry]

Still crashes. I'll try it out a bit more and see if there's anything I always do for it to crash, but it's hard to be aware of that since the game's so fast-paced and you need to 'zone-out' in order to get far in it.

Damnit - sorry Thought I had it

[Melly]

Still crashes. I'll try it out a bit more and see if there's anything I always do for it to crash, but it's hard to be aware of that since the game's so fast-paced and you need to 'zone-out' in order to get far in it.

Damnit - sorry Thought I had it

It only happened once so far, which is more than I could say for the last version. I actually got past wave 100 and saw some more ships.

[Terry]

Well, that's progress, at least :D

Afraid I'm going to have to leave this until tomorrow I can't reproduce the crash on my machine, I'm afraid, so it's difficult for me to track it down...

[edit] I just played to wave 188 and didn't see any crashes, but I just had a thought: maybe since I just replaced the old file, your browser has cached it and you've just downloaded the old version? Might be worth clearing your caches and trying again

Thanks for trying all the versions, by the way