In addition to fixing a few bugs Eck mentioned, I thought I might need to re-balance the game for death to be more "Useful" However, I didn't want to make death usefull enough that you would try to die as much as possible. In the end, I decided to make 2 difficulty levels: Easy has a death penalty …

Sound effects! Coins bleep, spaceships explode, transitions sis. Most of the effects are kinda lame, but the coin one is nice. I found this cool program that would generate sound effects called SFXR, and I used that one for the coin and the explosion. You just press "Random sound" until you get one…

The game was getting kind of boring, so I added 2 types of enemies:

• Yellow ring: Faster, rotates
  
• Red shape: Shoots at you. (You have 3 lives)
  
  I also did some stats about how beneficial death actually is to you, and I found you usually earn 30-60 points on death, which means with the death penalty of 1…

I have a highscore system. It filled up the space in the main menu nicely with 13 scores, with names. They are saved in a CSV file, and can be loaded again.
I also fixed a lot of random bugs. Earlier, coins in the death stage couldn't be collected, now they are worth 10 poins, and considering how ma…

I implemented the death stage, and it turned out really badly, its way to easy if you survive the first few seconds, and thats before the time I have realized I am in a special stage. The crazy number of asteroids make the game run very slow, and some objects aren't properly disabled, so you can no…

I had a lot of homework today, so I had a bit less time to work on the game then I wanted.
The first thing youle notice is the better graphics. I am aiming for a "Radar" look, and I found the gimp "Neon" effect gives the perfect impression.
In the top right, you can see the timer. The timer counts do…

This morning, during my lunch break, I quickly opened my computer to check the theme. I expected the theme would be something like the last 2 years: Only really having a influence in the graphics department, any game mechanic could be translated to fit the theme. So when I found the theme of the fr…