Frontier.

[annikk.exe]

Difficulty: Hard.
To win: Conquer all asteroids.
Defeat occurs if: You lose all your asteroids.

Features:

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• Gravity.  Asteroids move!
• Collision Detection.  Asteroids bounce off each other.
• Screen Wrapping.  Asteroids disappearing off the one edge of the level will reappear on the opposite edge.
• Infected AI v2.3 - first public release map to use the newly overhauled AI.
• Introducing the Parallax Engine - stars in the background give the illusion of depth.
• Lots of other hidden Easter Eggs and surprises.

Special thanks:

• My cousin Joel Barratt, for his invaluable assistance with optimising the parallax engine, organising the code into seperate functions, and more.
• AWS, with whom I worked very closely in the final stages of development.  His assistance and feedback were crucial in helping to balance the level for difficulty.
• Alex, for always being patient and doing his best to answer the hundreds of coding queries that I seem to continually fire off at him.  :>  The "instant fadeout" code for the start of the level was also entirely down to him.
• The community at large.  Your support is what makes it all worthwhile.  Thankyou.

Dedicated to Alex and Rudolf for their stunning contribution to the field of games.

[AWS]

oh yes!!
we begin again with more boundary pushing mayhem...

thanks once again good sir...

 

[pigpenguin]

OH SNAP
im downloading cause i want to see the parallax engine soooo bad I infact am not great at this game and so far have been unable to complete any of your maps     (edit and this is random but i just realized i became a seedling not just a seed PROMOTION sorry carry on )

[Alex]

Whoaaaah that's amazing!

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The stars really add to it, it looks super!

I don't have time to play all the way through it right now but wow, man. I'd never have believed anything like this was possible with the game.

[Rudolf]

Oh man, that is wonderful!
Annik, you have really outdone yourself.

THANK YOU

[Widget]

It actually looks even better than I'd been imagining. Unbelievable, really well done!

[annikk.exe]

I'm stoked that you guys seem to like this.  :>  The download counter is certainly shooting up!
Looking forward to hearing your tales of galactic conquest...

[AWS]

i think thats a resounding success in less than 24hours..
hehe...
 

[Pilchard123]

^ This.

I think my only problem is that the seedling fly through the asteroids that are near the ones they are an, though this is easily explained by saying they fly around it. *****+*, 11/10, 110%, A++, etc., etc., etc.

[annikk.exe]

I think my only problem is that the seedling fly through the asteroids that are near the ones they are an, though this is easily explained by saying they fly around it.

Yes, that doesn't look quite right, does it?  I'm not sure what could be done to fix that.  Hmm..

At least it doesn't really affect gameplay.


Has anyone beaten it yet, by the way? :>  I found that totally different tactics are required, compared to a more standard level..

[annikk.exe]

I'm wondering if maybe this level allowed mechanics to get in the way of the gameplay too much.  Did you guys think the level was fun to play?  Or was it mostly just something you loaded up, looked around for 5 minutes at all the cool floaty stuff, and then quit?

[Bonobo]

Have d’loaded but haven’t found the time to play in the past, I think, two weeks.

[ArdB]

Great, great, great.

didn't know that something like this was even possible.
sometimes it's quite frustrating when you want to send your seedlings to a nearby star and it just floated out of range but it is a good gameplay overall.

Thank you   

[annikk.exe]

Thanks for the feedback.  :>
Maybe if I do something like this again, I'll make an artificial direction-reversing wall instead, so asteroids that fly off the map just slow down then come flying back again.

[Bonobo]

Whoa again. And again whoa.

Beau-ti-ful! And

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too cool the namings of the asteroids <happy happy> didn’t find other Easter Eggs yet b/c the enemy destroyed my too fast. Was too disappointed by the speed at which they came at me to play right again …