Xuma V1.3.0

V1.3.0

This update includes a new game mode, a few changes, bug fixes and performance improvements.

New features:

• new Endless game mode: play levels you have already played at least once in the normal mode with increasing difficulty (as for now, no data is saved about Endless games and it’s not possible to resume it, so, even when you press Esc game stats are shown)
• now chain combos give bonus points, and also, points made are shown every time balls explode
• now every 10’000 points a new life is added

Changes:

• now the game is in fullscreen (soon I’ll add the possibility to switch between small and full screen) moved quit button to the corner of the screen and replaced the old one with the Endless Mode button
• New Game (normal mode) doesn’t let you choose at which level to start anymore, just at which stage (to play the level you want you can practice it in the Endless Mode)
• now most balls on the screen are displayed from a saved .png in data/graphics, boosting by a lot the performance of the game: this change also allows to change the graphics of the balls without editing the source code, aka it is possible to have custom graphics for balls, even though not for every ball for now (the images are 41x41)
• This version might be incompatible with old saved data: you may still pass your high score and play normally New Game and Endless, but by clicking Resume the game might crash (now, with the new bonuses, in an average game one makes much more points, so passing the old high score is probably useless, if not just to have the levels already unlocked)

Fixes:

• fixed a problem that made the game show 2-0 as high score, instead of 2-5 when all levels were completed
• (probably fixed, it’s so rare I couldn’t check) fixed a problem that made the game ignore explosions if they had to happen in the same frame of another contact of balls
• a small graphic fix in level selection and other small improvements