Trolls Outta Luckland - 0.0.7-beta

Mad skills dude, very impressive. I get 140+ FPS without Psycho

Was able to make it run with Pygame 1.8.1release-svn1537 by patching ui.py:

#sr = self.small_rect.copy()
sr = self.small_rect.move(0,0)

Sweet stuff!

v1.1.0-beta released

Hey, you can return the favour: I made one awesome christmas game a while ago a have zero comments - http://www.pygame.org/project-Merry+Christmas+-+Christmas+Avenger-1369-.html

I can relate to feeling neglected...

Hey, thanks for the note, Nathan. :)

Each enemy type has a unique curve shape, be it "S", "?", or whatever. The flight paths are bezier curves. Each time a new path is plotted, key elements of the default control points are first randomly tweaked to give the calculated curves some variety.

Ship control was something I spent a lot of time experimenting with. Originally it was just twitchy, instantly turning towards the mouse pointer--but the feel was too manic for my taste. The other extreme was a slowly turning ship, which made for wider turns and less ease backing out of a wrong turn. I wanted to /see/ the ship spin but didn't want to be hampered by a wide turning radius. The way it is now is a compromise. By design I had never considered not turning the ship--I wanted 360-degree movement and shots. Tip: If you plan to make it very far you'll learn to smooth out your turns. Potshots miss nearly 100%, and they waste your cannon's potential fire rate while waiting for shots to clear the screen edge.

What's wrong with the menus? Lol. (I was lazy and didn't want to hand paint images. :))

I was actually able to play it this time, and I must say, you have some fine concepts in there. How planned is the flight patterns of the ships? The whole ship rotating on the mouse thing is a bit weird and makes for a more pot-shot-then-dance experience (different) and the menus are *blech*! Good job though.

v1.0.0-final released

v0.0.7-beta released

v0.0.6 released

Sorry to hear, Nathan. What is your monitor's max resolution?

the strange and high resolution disallows me form playing it on my laptop. Sorry.

Roger, Horst. Here ya go. :)

Thanks for the note of encouragement. While this release does not bring the mighty keyboard into the cockpit, I think that the mouse controls, look, and feel--and sound--are quite improved. Hope you enjoy.

nice game. i wish for some sound effects to get the full 1980 feeling.
Also think that (optional) keyboard control would be more thematic than mouse control. looking forward to the next release :-)