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From: Marc@darkhex.com
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Subject: Re: Another update
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 23:44:55 +0100
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I would certainly like to know when you do!

I'll check out your current progress and put another message here with what I
think of it :-)

I've been impressed with your previous work, so I'm looking forward to this
one...

    Marc.

> Question.
> Does anyone mind/care if I keep saying when I have a new progress demo ?
> I figured as we still cant register site updates I should mention it
> somewhere.
> ( It does get mentioned in my external website www.quietbloke.com but I
> doubt many of you visit it )
>
> Anyway.. I just uploaded the latest progress build.
>
> It shows the rough ( very rough) screen for the first game ( 1 player ). You
> have four plots of fruit/veg which you have to protect from the bugs ( err
> bug at the moment ).
>
> I fixed the title screens to show the new Yarozescene logo and you can now
> press start to skip the intro's.
>
> It also has a test sample of some burst effects which I plan to use when you
> hit bonus items etc
> Splat a bug and you get a 2 node burst.. press the triangle to get an
> alternative burst... it all sounds a bit weird but if anyone is bored maybe
> you wanna see it and tell me what you think.
> I made the bursts code kind of generic where each node can spawn another at
> a set time and a set angle offset. Keep pressing triangle to get lots of
> bursts going on.. I currently have the max set to 50 I think.. it all gets a
> bit busy onscreen but the frameowrk seems to plod along quite happily at the
> moment.
>
> eekk.. it must be late.. Im not even making sense to myself. I shall stop
> here before you all fall asleep.
>
> Ahh well.. happy coding all.