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LOL I just played my own game and realized the problem with not showing scoring and stuff, so I quickly added that and recompiled, rezipped, and reuploaded... so that's the technically newest version.

The scoring system people seem to be confused about... so here it goes


Theres a formula that is used, depending on the higher level, the more time you spend simply "staying alive" the more points you get. I.E. in level 1 if you spend like 25 seconds doing nothing but avoiding the yellow ball, you get 1 point (every 25 seconds). in level 2 it's 1 point for every 15 seconds (or something) and it decreases until you get a bunch of points for staying alive when theres a lot of yellow balls around... yup.

Then: You get -10 points for getting hit, which is why you could end up with negative or very low amount of points. You get 5 points for collecting a powerup, and you get bonus points for completing a level (something like level*2 points, I don't remember the equation exactly.)

So that's it. As for the balls moving randomly... I thought about that, but the way that it works now is that the box will hit a ball and it will bounce in a different direction... and it's just a lot easier to do x = x + 1 ... I could do it I guess, but for right now I'm extremely happy with the game! It's turned out wayyy better than I ever thought it could .

So, keep playing, and maybe I'll implement a "high score" list or something that keeps track, I haven't decided if I want to yet. Thanks for your support!

EDIT: What color should I use for the "bad balls" if they are too closely resembled to the green ones? Blue seems like it would blend in too much with the black... and bright blue / purple are already taken... it seems to work fine for me :S

Ok well, its far too easy still, just in another way lol. I magaged to get my square to almost fill the entire screen, I had over 200 power and over 200 bombs before I even finished level one. All i did was get rid of all but one green ball and collected power ups by moving the mouse. It only took me about 60 seconds after that to get to level 45. The first screenshot below shows me at lvl 30 something with my giant square. the picture below it shows what happened when I started a new level and used a bomb =) In the end at lvl 45 I had over 12,000 points

Quote:EDIT: What color should I use for the "bad balls" if they are too closely resembled to the green ones? Blue seems like it would blend in too much with the black... and bright blue / purple are already taken... it seems to work fine for me :S

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LoL... wow... I didn't know the powerups were bugged like that... maybe something to look in to... glad you're having fun anyways

Did you even look at my recommendation to have a limited amount of power-ups per level? Or is this something else? ^_^;;

Yeah, the "randomness" for how often a powerup drops is actually something like CHANCE = int(rnd * (level*10)) + 1
and then if CHANCE = 1 then it's a powerup; that's why you get a lot in the beginning... however, the powerups drop at the same rate because each level the balls increase by 10, and so does the less chance to get a powerup... so in short, they drop the same amount, but it seems like less in the higher levels? I dunno, it seems to work good for me, I can only get to like level 9

Level 12 with 284 points my first try, and that was when I was going into the yellow balls (didn't see how yellow they were at first)! Whooot! Time to get higher!

Second Try:
Crashed around level 90, latest screenshot with balls is from level 67 or so.



Thanks for a fun game which I pwnz at ^_^;;

LoL!

Wow... of course, any time!


Well just so you know, I now fixed the glitch of the eternal powerups, sorry to all you cheaters out there ... So now the game should play like... well, the game is intended to play. I can only get to like level 13 with the new change... you get 13 of them yellow buggers flyin' around and it gets kinda tricky... heh... Well I guess it could be trying to play with a touchpad :lol:

Say, any chance of seeing the source code?

LYNCH!!! well, that's if he says no...