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This is a really smooth vertical shooter for the Next. The graphics are many layered and very well animated. It is one good looking game. The audio sounds fantastic with a great back track. My only criticism there is that the sound effects could do with a little more punch to stand out from the music. And... the game has mouse controls as an option! This means it is compatible with the Nextball Arcade and I can confirm it works really well with it. This is the first true Next vertical shooter with Nextball capability (Red Shift is a classic Speccy game that can do it). BUT... there is a bug. You cannot move with a mouse/Nextball unless you hold down fire. This needs fixing before the game can take the title. Hopefully this can be fixed soon, then that's finally a Next vertical shooter in the growing Nextball capable library of games. Thanks Mr Dev, you made my weekend.

PS. If you do an update to fix the mouse/Nextball bug, adding the ability to use the delete key during high score name entry as well would add some extra polish. It can be a bit frustrating otherwise.

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Hi AndyCalling. Thank you for your feedback. Actally, the mouse behaviour is as expected. I wanted it to be similar to the behavior of a mobile game, where you hold down to move and shoot, and release to stop. Although for mouse could be strange (I have received more feedback in that direction) I think it works well. But I didn't consider the Nextball Arcade at all, and I understand that in that case the player would expect the character would move regardless you press the fire button. I will make an update in the following days. I will also add the return button in high score screen.

Ah, I see. I'm not much of a mobile gamer so it came as a bit of a surprise to me. Thanks for working on a change, it really will make Wing Warriors a fantastic shooter for the Nextball Arcade. Wing Warriors is a great looking game, and so responsive with the Nextball. An impressive achievement.

Mouse controls has been fixed.

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Woohoo! On the way home from work now. I can't wait to shout about this one in the community groups. This is gonna be a fantastic Nextball Arcade experience. Thanks for such a cool game.

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I've been playing it. It is even better with the Nextball Arcade than I thought it would be, which is a strangely common feeling with the Nextball. When first testing, I had only tried the first character. Now I realise each character moves differently.  This is particularly great with an analogue trackball as you get a very different feel and  different control experience with each of them. Genius! It looks fantastic and plays very well indeed. The high score table is a little tricky to use still, but I'm sure that will get sorted and it doesn't affect the game play. The immediate reaction I had to seeing a letter A presented was to use the cursor up/down keys to change it. That got me a number entered. So I pressed delete. That got me another number entered. Luckily my first high score was easily beaten. :-D  Wing Warriors, when paired with the Nextball, is the only analogue vertical shooter experience for the Next. Red Shift is great, but it is a Speccy 128K game and is a bit monochrome.  For me, this is the best vertical shooter on the platform. 

I honestly wasn't expecting such positive feedback. I'm glad I spent a few hours fixing the problem. I'm happy you liked it.