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I completely lied about speculative release dates of my next game, and this is mainly because I've recently adopted and full schedule at school. However, I've decided to find some time and motivation to get some work done on it lately.

Right now I'm refactoring a whole bunch of code and porting deprecated Box2D code to a new version that has more features and increased speed (I was surprised at how far behind the times I am). So I'm just generally cleaning up and improving what I have so far, and also making it far more easier to read and manage the code. I even spent quite a few hours figuring out proper time steps in my game so that gameplay runs equally and smoother for slower computers. In fact, Growbox did not have any special time step code; this causes the game to actually run slower on some computers, and if you try to play the game on a slow enough computer some levels aren't beatable. I'm quite a bit wiser now, and my second game will have much better implementations.

Once I'm pleased with these things I'm going to dive head first into all the actual gameplay mechanics, because right now there's no winning or losing or any kind of reward system.

Well, winter break is over. So looks like I'll need to juggle school and my games again. The engine and most of the major stuff of my game is complete, but of course it will take twice as long to polish it to perfection. I'm expecting to finish in February. Here are a couple screenshots of development so far! Should be self explanatory :)

Been busy with school lately, but I finally managed to get my next game moving forward in development. Winter break just started today! :D

I've redirected the ideas for my next game towards something else, but it will still contain lasers. I also constructed the "Stuff" page. I think I can finish the game by January if school doesn't get too much in the way.

Game in development!

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