Thanks for all the comments so far! I’ve enjoyed seeing how everyone has liked the game.

Here are a few responses to some of your comments:

– Anyone who said there needs to be a restart button:
I fully agree, so I added one after the contest was over. There are also multiple difficulty levels in it.

– Anyone who said that it takes too long to load at first:
It’s because the sound files are wav, I’ll put them in ogg at some point. This loading time will only happen once, however, as it caches this data on your hard disk. So once you’ve loaded it once (basically equivalent to downloading it) then you won’t have to again for longer than half a second.

– Anyone who said it would freeze and suddenly rush forward:
I don’t know why I did this, but I definitely spent more time to get a dynamic frame rate going, instead of a fixed one. This was I guess to allow slow motion / ultra speed (you can see that easy mode is slower overall than hard), but I also wanted it to be able to adapt to any computer speed so it would be able to play effectively the same speed no matter what it was on, it would just skip frames. Unfortunately, when a ton of particles fly down this actually causes it to skip a bunch of frames. So I’ll either make it take a frame rate average for a longer period of time or I’ll remove this.

– In response to ondrew saying “I have to give technical 1 for the Java App Deployment stuff.”
I have no idea what you’re talking about and I don’t feel this is justified. Did you give me a technical of 1 because you just don’t like Java, or what? Java is a full fledged programming language and does no more for you than C++. I made it in Java because I prefer Java and because I’m on Mac, therefore it’s more accessible to me. Not because it’s easier or something. All of the technical impressiveness of this game (read: particle effects) would have been exactly as difficult on C++. It’s all using direct OpenGL access  which is equivalent in Java and C++. Please edit your review to explain exactly what you mean by “Java App Deployment Stuff.” Thanks.

– In response to Morre:
I totally agree with you, actually. It’s got sort of the basic gameplay in it but not enough variety to be one of my favorite pastimes. If you’re interested, you can try the post-LD version which improves the scoring a lot, adds in a harder (and an easier) difficulty, and also  fixes that score increase bug.

Thanks again, everybody! Hopefully my comments have been helpful as well.