So, after fiddling around with some ideas, I decided a platformer would be a fine second game to create, as more people are into platformers and RPGs than shmups (boo.)

A bunch of ideas started popping up, see, I'd rather not make this your average platformer. So right now I'm not sure how I'm supposed to approach this:

What I'm trying to do is a bullet prediction line thingy (I have no idea what you call it) that constantly provides you with your bullet route before you shoot it. Like in Bust-A-Move on SNES. Problem is, I have no idea how to make a constant line that bounces off solid objects, and I'm pretty much gonna have to use constantly shooting objects that move while my mouse moves at any given time, to calculate the correct route. I'm using the mouse to shoot bouncing bullets, and a prediction line that calculates the route beforehand is needed in this game. I'm not sure how to approach this with my noob programming skills (anything with math > me) so if anyone could provide some sort of push in that direction, it would be greatly appreciated.

Other than that, I've got pretty much everything else down (the stinking grapple hook was frustrating to get right, so I combined some stuff from DF's Swing Engine and Carl Gustafsson's grapple hook example, so now it's similar to a hook but isn't exactly one. Big deal, still works like one :P)

In other news, we really need an IRC Chat.

School sucks so I can't play around in Sapphire Tears much, and did I mention I really hate math?

Calculus next year; I'm gonna fail the first test. Then I'm done with the damned thing for good after it's over <_<