Very nice. Now go finish it.

Immediate concerns:

• As mentioned, the ship is too slow. It's especially evident on the boss, where dodging the barrages of bullets sometimes becomes impossible because you simply can't move fast enough.

• I'd like to know more information about the differences of the two ships on the ship select screen. Some stats would be very helpful.

• Why is the [X] button disabled?! Misfeature! Fix!

• Is there some particular reason why there's a separate button for the secondary weapon, as opposed to it just firing when you hold down the normal fire button?

Also, I'd like to know who made the graphics/music.

It would have been nice if that was, you know, actually written somewhere in the game. Yes, in the game. Not the readme file. This is an arcade-style game, so treat it as if people just step up to the cabinet and play.

Yes.

I never read readme files! I would like to know if these people have individual websites. I'd like to have a look.

Fair enough. You've nailed the arcade feeling, by the way, and thanks for the sites.

But fix the close button thing. It's really annoying.

X-G: Done

Inphernic: Thank you very much

Nice polished game.

In the keyboard configuration, changing "start" kept changing fire 2.
The music is sort of annoying.
The bomb you can drop is sort of worthless.
I kept dying, can you dodge the bullets? It sort of seemed like I could when I tilted up/down but that didn't work all the time.

I do like how you lose all your powerups when you die but can quickly get them back.

The keyboard bug is fixed (in 1.3) which will be uploaded later. It's not really that crucial right now since the only time you'll need the start button is to JOIN a game. (dunno if player 1 ever needs it..)

The side-arm system will be completely redone (featuring different levels, and a charging meter) for later versions, since it's now pretty worthless (at least the blue ship's side arm).

The hitbox is... pretty small, but it's different for ships. If you check the monitor while you're changing character you will see an arrow that points to the hitbox, however this didn't turn out as exactly as I wanted it to. But anyway, the hitbox (for bullets, mind you) is located at the COCKPIT (i.e at the forward part of the blue ship, and a bit more backwards on the red one) and is something like 4x3 pixels (maybe a bit too big after all ...). This will also be taken care of in the full version (or another demo version), for example it could be pulsating (is that a word? my english is poor ) in some color when you hold FIRE.

Also the hitbox for colliding with other aircrafts/tanks/powerups/etc is a lot bigger.

There's no bullet-scratching/teching/other word in this game, but you DO get a bonus for "dissolving" fresh bullets shot by enemies. (all bullets shot by an enemy that've lived for less than 75 frames). Read more on the scoring information in the readme file.

Kikaru: It was me . n/p. Glad that they could be of any use.

Kazzmr:
oh.. and music being annoying?? Come on! It's freaking great . But if you don't like it, simply turn it off in the settings menu. By the way, love your avatar

Thanks

Yeah it's 640x480 with stretchblt ...
How do I implement 2xsai ?

Also I have no idea on how to do a CPU usage setting! Got any reading material on the matter ?

X-G: Hehe.. no worries. I like many settings

Thank you!

Hehe no problem . I personally can not play a shoot'em up with the keyboard so gamepad support is a must in my games ... Thank you for your kind words .

Well then, what about a super eagle filter, scanlines , bicubic interpolation and so on.

Use the search engine in these forums, you will find more information that what is generally needed.

It doesn't look as nice as a bicubic interpolation but it doesn't look so bad either, and it is easy to implement(Bob already did all the work).