Hyperborea News #3
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What's new?
Apart from some internal improvements and smaller addons / changes:
- fat laser shot
This is your secondary weapon. It's stronger than the spread-shot, but - guess what - doesn't spread. Also, your ship moves at half speed when this is fired. Very good to dodge dense bullet curtains.
A double-click toggles between the two weapon types. Don't worry: your gun will still continue firing when you shortly lift your thumb for this action.
- sprite priorities
In 2p mode the player / player-shot sprites' priorities are alternating each frame now (well, technically it's the hw-sprites and some colors that are toggled). So in even frames all the stuff of player 1 is drawn on top of player 2 and in odd frames player 2 and its shots occlude player 1. This effectively results in both player-ships and -shots being visible all the time.
Before this change player 1 and its shots always overpainted all the 2nd player's stuff.
- a logo screen
- main menu (not fully functional as of yet)
- oh, and I finally found a 2nd player so that I don't have to handle the handy and two joysticks all by myself
Cheers,
Daniel