Picotan v1.0 Released!

Picotan has moved out of the prototyping stage and into a full launch!

Numerous improvements have been made:

• High scores are now saved
• Brand new art (the game has much more of an identity now inspired by pinball / pachinko machines)
• Significant performance improvements
  • No more slowdown when collecting 50+ balls (not sure if this will still occur much later in the game?)
• New menu options
  • End current turn: Useful in situations where balls could get stuck bouncing back and forth infinitely. Immediately ends the turn so use cautiously
  • Aim assist: Allows you to see where balls will reflect
  • Screen shake: Can be disabled
  • Brick HP: In the new version, health points are distributed randomly. This can be changed to legacy mode for linear progression (increases by 1 each turn)
  • Reset high score: Does what it says on the tin
• Several bug fixes including:
•  Collision is now more consistent
• Aiming preview is more accurate

I've made the P8 file available for download, but examine at your own peril -- the code is atrocious and can be optimized * a lot *. I may do this in the future but would not recommend trying to learn from this.