Turtle Tuesday: The Invading Changelog

Hey all,

It's time for another Turtle Tuesday! Today I would like to share that the game is almost ready for sure this time. I have to add one more boss and also some extras that make the game worth completing. So here is the list of changes from the old 1.3 version:

• Many bat AI improvements
• Changed the bat AI to have up to two abilities
• Basic abilities: {powerup, leader, shoot, armor, circle, steal, nothing}

• Powerup: has either "none", "shotgun",  "time", "laser", "freeze" powerups
• Leader: This bat has bats which follow it in a special pattern
• Shoot: Shoots bullets after a certain amount of time
• Armor: Has armor to protect it from dying
• Circle: Circles around while moving to dodge bullets
• Steal: This bat can steal the above type of powerup near it

• This allows for more crazy options rather than just fly down/left/right and shoot

• 3 unique bosses
• Two from the game Turtle: Puzzles which is not released yet
• Each one is a good challenge, even with simple AI for the first two

• Co-op multiplayer
• Players can use joysticks if needed
• To do so, you can configure them inside of the options screen's "controls" tab

• Game modes and Extras
• "Normal" - Play through the campaign
• "Endless" - Get through endless amounts of waves to get the highest score
• "Boss Rush" - Fight all three bosses in order while attempting to get the fastest time and best score possible
• Custom characters
• Documentation will be made later

• Save states
• Pretty much a "save and quit" to come back where you were later
• Applies to multiplayer as well

•  Fullscreen
• Took not too long to do (since it's supported in 0.9.0+), but now you can finally explode bats in amazing full screen glory!

• High scores list
• View all the high scores from the selection in the main menu

• Powerups
• Bats now have the chance to drop anti-power ups which are power ups that will hinder you on your high score journey.

• Problems Fixed/Improvements
• Bats getting stuck on barriers
• Bat boss not appearing properly
• Fixed slow game pace
• Improved sprite quality
• Improved menu/options layout
• Credits is accessed from the main menu and hitting "tab"
• Certain music was low, and now is fixed
• Removed 1v1 mode, was pointless

Now the thought occurs: "Wow, that looks like a lot!". It surely was. I want Turtle: Invaders to be a great game to improve upon what Turtle: Puzzles lacked. Anything done in this game from artificial intelligence to the slightest bit of custom functions helps improve my coding skills. That improvement will hopefully show in Turtle: Puzzles and future games. Here's some comparison screenshots from 1.3 to 1.4:

Left: Version 1.3, Right: Version 1.4