Day 5

• Drone class aliens are now animated.
• Silver class aliens have improved animations.
• Animated sprites start on a random frame to make things look less uniform.
• Added Smartbomb, Speedboost and Weapons jammer power-ups.
• If HP falls below 50% then the player weapons and speed boost are downgraded one level.
• Players can use dynamo power to emit a Smartbomb.
• Power-ups leave the play area faster at hyper speed.
• Made sparkly things more sparkly.
• Ignore sprite collisions outside of the play area.
• Tweaked the difficulty of Asteroid Belt mini-games.
• Added short training missions to help new players learn the game.
• Added generous power-up drop rate in the Evade mini-game.
• Balanced the difficulty/fairness across all game modes.
• PICO-8 token hunting: ~360 tokens reclaimed.

Here are some clips from the training missions: