Lee Fastenau said:
> Hello all,
>
> I've made some serious headway in Reflex development over the last month or
> so. The two major changes are:
>
> 1) Revamped "paddle english" code. The ball reacts differently to the edges
> of the paddle as one might expect... But it's a delta of the reflected exit
> velocity versus a fixed exit velocity. (Just play with it and please tell
> me how much you hate it!)
Great! It makes the game much more interesting.
> 2) Varying screens/levels! Hit Reset to start the game at level 1... hit it
> repeatedly to cycle through the 20 __test__ levels included. Once the ball
> starts moving, hitting reset returns to level 1 and starts a new game. I
> realize there are some timing issues here... particularly on a real console,
> I found it difficult to hit reset multiple times and then grab the joystick
> quickly enough before the ball went into play. I also want to implement
> "start game on joystick button press" but we'll see...
It's very difficult to pick out a level you'd like to play, since the game
starts once you look at one for more than a second. I would definitely change
this.
> Right now, the ball increases velocity after every 20 paddle hits (I think).
> Anyway, it's some arbitrary number at this point and I'll do some serious
> game-balancing and fine-tuning later. I just quickly coded that part to
> help make playing this alpha more fun.
Seems ok. At least, I was usually finishing the levels before it got too
fast. That's not to say I didn't die a lot even when it was moving slowly
though.
One other thing, I liked the score graphics in the older versions better. You
know, where zero was smaller than the other numbers? It looked cool.
-Aaron
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