Progress is…progressive.

Heres the all new title screen! Yay? Nay? Moo?

Despite the turmoils of life and livelihood, I've found time to work…on Shield Breaker. Its getting a nice rehual graphicaly and a new music system, still planning on it being customizable.

Some new bonuses, a 'slap' bonus based on how many times a ball hits you in excess of 3 times(its more of a joke bonus, you get little points for it), and a time completion bonus. That last one is a little too tricky to pull off, so I may need to change the base and rate of increase.

Other changes are unmarked pandora boxes, revised from the lost and later decompiled versions that once stated what they were with a letter. The magnetic vortexs also have limited ball capacity and will release about half of what they took in when maxed out, this value is both random and dependant on level.

Backgrounds will now be designed, and the room is no longer reset when a level is complete, leaving behind bonuses and sub-shields. I decided to salvage graphics from Rick Jason, but since they were made with multiple layers in photoshop, I was able to use larger resolution tiles. They were half sized on RJ.

The biggest challange I'm facing now is getting the music system in order. So far of the 80+ loops, I've only clipped/edited/fixed about 30. I've elimitated some and may look for more to work with, but I'm also debating trying to find software to create my own. For now they help me get a feel of how I shall transition loops between levels, beats from blocks, and other such noise. Its coming along but still needs work, and I still need to check out the two sound dlls I got a week or so ago.

One thing I was also considering, was much like RJ, having the option to 'sell' score points for shield points. Maybe set limits to how much you can buy and possibly not give you bonus points for purchased shield points. What do you think?