UPDATE 1.06 - Critical Game Sabotaging Bug Fix + More!

Laser Ball

In this fast and furious action retro game, you'll need to race against time and use a laser gun with precise shots to neutralize and collect electrified bouncing balls and deposit them safely out of harms way.

I would like to give a HUGE shout out to Steam user Kinzoku for posting a critical bug that would cause you to sometimes no longer be able to finish a game. Kinzoku posted this screenshot in the bug reports forum thread that showed how in one game where a ton of points were scored, the border color suddenly demanded a color that didn't have a matching ball to shoot! https://puu.sh/BnhKW/4489eb2215.png I believe I've tracked this bug down, and as usual, it was a super simple mistake made when I was coding my game where I put a 1 instead of the letter l in a variable name. Ugh, silly me! *-* Update 1.06 also includes all new more efficient ball bouncing code to handle the way the balls bounce against the walls. It was only 13 lines of code removed, but when you realize that your computer reads those lines of code 60 times a second as the game runs at 60 fps and it read those extra lines for all nine balls (if nine balls were bouncing around).. that means this code clean up saved the game needing to read and process 7,020 lines of code every second! (13 lines of code TIMES 9 potential balls TIMES 60 times a second = 7,020) *-* The update also adds a new line of my voice directing players who start the tutorial on how to use the control panel to use the laser gun to shoot the ball that matches the border color. In watching a recent video of the game played, it was obvious that my tutorial with just text telling the player what to do (and arrows) wasn't quite enough as the video showed the player extremely confused on what to do, even using the tutorial. Hopefully this added voice instruction will help new players understand the basic objective of this game! *-* One additional voice was added to the game, and that is my sons voice recording which has been added to help warn you when you are standing in harms way of acid filling up in the safe zone. If lives can be saved from being eaten by acid with this new voice recording being added, then it was worth this extra effort! ;-) Please let me know if this update creates any problems or things you don't like, or if any bugs are found while playing! I hope you enjoy! =) Thanks again to Kinzoku! This bug report was MUCH appreciated and help makes this game a better experience for all players! <3