Excuse me as I plug my WIP 
I just made an update so give it a shot if you have a chance.
War on Bugs is a vertical scrolling shooter. You control one of two selectable characters and choose between 3 unique Helper types. This is an alpha version so the game will loop after the 4th stage. More information can be found in game by pressing F1. Runs about 55fps on an XP machine thats about 8 years old with 512 ram and a 64mb videocard.
Screenshots
More Screenshots
http://chironinteractive.com/component/option,com_phocagallery/Itemid,61/id,103:/view,category/
Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY1VzFW3Ua0
links to Stage 4 videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM9XpKUfJ7Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfm0i31QFL4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78TG-07Ys6g
Score Attack update for .58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnJ0o0u_gpk
Mirrors
http://www.yoyogames.com/games/94232-war-on-bugs
http://www.filefront.com/15735097/WoB77e.zip/
http://chironinteractive.com/downloads/WoB77e.zip
Final Comments
No fancy 3D.
100% Particle system free.
4 Stages for testing as well as Score Attack Mode
3 Difficultly levels each with own scoreboards.
User configurable controls, Music/SFX levels and Video sync.
You can toggle between full screen and windowed modes by pressing the F4 key on your keyboard.
Scoring
Destroying enemies with your main shot gains you points as well as some charge-up items. Collect these for points and so that you can use your powershot. Destroying enemies with your powershot will give you a higher score but the enemies will not drop charge up items. Destroying enemies with bombs gives you less points, but still drops charge-up items.
The configurable buttons are:
Main Shot/Accept -During gameplay this is your primary mode of attack. During menus this will accept the current selection.
Charge Shot - This fires the characters special attack that is more powerful than the main shot. It requires that you have collected some charge items. Your charge inventory is listed at the bottom middle of the screen. You can not collect more than twenty at a time so use this often. Also used in menus to move backward.
Bomb -This will discharge a bomb unique to each character.
Start - Moves you forward in menus and pauses gameplay.
Difficulty Settings
At the beginning of your game you can choose between Larva, Normal or Hard difficulty settings. The higher the difficulty the more bullets, and Hard has a bullet speed increase as well.
Known Bugs:
Sometimes sounds do not play when triggered.
As always, feedback is appreciated.
I just made an update so give it a shot if you have a chance.War on Bugs is a vertical scrolling shooter. You control one of two selectable characters and choose between 3 unique Helper types. This is an alpha version so the game will loop after the 4th stage. More information can be found in game by pressing F1. Runs about 55fps on an XP machine thats about 8 years old with 512 ram and a 64mb videocard.
Screenshots
More Screenshots
http://chironinteractive.com/component/option,com_phocagallery/Itemid,61/id,103:/view,category/
Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY1VzFW3Ua0
links to Stage 4 videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM9XpKUfJ7Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfm0i31QFL4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78TG-07Ys6g
Score Attack update for .58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnJ0o0u_gpk
Mirrors
http://www.yoyogames.com/games/94232-war-on-bugs
http://www.filefront.com/15735097/WoB77e.zip/
http://chironinteractive.com/downloads/WoB77e.zip
Final Comments
No fancy 3D.
100% Particle system free.
4 Stages for testing as well as Score Attack Mode
3 Difficultly levels each with own scoreboards.
User configurable controls, Music/SFX levels and Video sync.
You can toggle between full screen and windowed modes by pressing the F4 key on your keyboard.
Scoring
Destroying enemies with your main shot gains you points as well as some charge-up items. Collect these for points and so that you can use your powershot. Destroying enemies with your powershot will give you a higher score but the enemies will not drop charge up items. Destroying enemies with bombs gives you less points, but still drops charge-up items.
The configurable buttons are:
Main Shot/Accept -During gameplay this is your primary mode of attack. During menus this will accept the current selection.
Charge Shot - This fires the characters special attack that is more powerful than the main shot. It requires that you have collected some charge items. Your charge inventory is listed at the bottom middle of the screen. You can not collect more than twenty at a time so use this often. Also used in menus to move backward.
Bomb -This will discharge a bomb unique to each character.
Start - Moves you forward in menus and pauses gameplay.
Difficulty Settings
At the beginning of your game you can choose between Larva, Normal or Hard difficulty settings. The higher the difficulty the more bullets, and Hard has a bullet speed increase as well.
Known Bugs:
Sometimes sounds do not play when triggered.
As always, feedback is appreciated.
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