So, not being satisfied with the completion rate of my LD entyr, i decided to work on it some more and upload it to a Flash hosting site. I spent waaay mroe time improving it than I intended, and people are still pointing out bugs, which I’m trying to hunt down.

Anyways, I’m pretty much satisfied with what I got now, and I already spammed some flash-hosting services with it.

So, what’s changed:

Level redesign
LD version didn’t even use half of the 128×128 tile grid, the improved version utilises almost all of it.

Graphics upgrade
Added many new tiles, redrawn some enemies, added flickering effect to bullet to distinguish them from other stuff. Also, parallax background (yay!)

Final boss
Added a boss, and a pretty hard one. Actually, it’s the only hard thing. Or…

No future mode
When you beat the game, you have an option to test your skills in ‘no future mode’ (a cake to anyone who figures where this term comes from) IMO it’s unbeatable, but who knows….

Explosions
I aimed at having a lot of explosions in this entry, and all I had was some dust. I fixed this by adding loooooooooooots of explosions.

Plot
Now it has an intro, therefore a plot. It might not be an epic one, but it comes with a twist 😉 Also, I made the character talk. Talking animation was done during the LD, but there was no code to wrap it around.

More weapons
Haha, no, that’s a lie.

Game balance + physics update
I updated the physics a bit, so that you have more control over the character, and balanced the game so it might actually get tough at some point. I took my time to reply the game thousand times to balance it properly.

Music
Actually, music is the very same cause I couldn’t push myself to change it after listening to it so many times, even tho I know it’s shit 😛 But I added intro music (not mine, tho). Ok, I changed the music track due to lots of comments saying it’s shit :P. I spent about 2 minutes making the old track so no wonder 😛 Anyways, the new one should sound much better.

Now let me nag you with this lengthy comparison:

And try it there:

Kongregate

Newgrounds

Original LD entry

Also, it’s awaiting approval on other sites I spammed with it. Wish me luck with that!