Check 'm out:
The new 'southern desert' scenery: 
Enemy fleet movement: 
The new main menu screen: 
Enemy fighters and the sun: 
Mission briefing: 
- Homing missiles are cool
- We're still aiming for a mid-Feb release
- Bluetooth MP should be in by that date. 😊
Looks great. Thanks for posting the shots.
Rafe
Yeah well I can't seem to get them anywhere on regular websites apparently. 😊 Looks like the Symbian community cares more about apps. 😉 I'll make a 3D file explorer to get you guys used to good graphics some day. 8)
:rofl: that would be cool, to browse files in 3D 😃
That game is beginning to look really cool.
Is the file size grown from the ~350kB much?
Installer is 249Kb right now; installed the game is quite a bit bigger (570Kb). It's going to be slightly smaller, I can shave off a couple of bits here and there.
We have lots of code in place for reducing the size of the app, for example if I load an image to a surface I can resize it using bilinear interpolation (no blocks, put simply), wich brings down an explosion animation to 50% or less, before applying regular compression.
Besides that many graphics are generated by code or reused in various ways. The red landscape for example is the same heightmap as the first 'world', but vertically inverted and topped off to create 'plateaus'. For phones, size is very important. Everytime I give this app to someone they have to remove something else so apparently even 250Kb is often too much.
Thanks. Sounds really promising 😃
I can live with game taking about 600kB, if its cool. 😉