Version 0.71 adds new features and improvements to ARKFRONT.
Features:
- Added another explosion effect for golden asteroids.
- Added side to side camera sway.
- Added five more levels to the campaign for a total of 85.
- Made level 1 in stage 5 longer.
- Made level 1 in stage 1 longer.
- Expanded outpost system with new dialog.
- Began use of SmearFX to add motion blur to some of the powerups and add a sense of additional motion to the combat.
- Now asteroids dynamically spawn at outposts, and are destroyed when hitting obstacles and lasers.
Improvements and Fixes:
- Improved the presentation of background artwork to better utilize layering. Now no longer off center. Star layer is now parallax with the action on screen, adding a great sense of motion.
- Improved the Countdown timer display, now displays time remaining in even seconds and minutes. Also now displays the time that the player has survived along with a high score that is posted to GameCenter.
- Fixed a number of draw depth problems.
- Populations at outposts now use K instead of full numbers.
- The pause button now shares the overlay with the population count, and has been moved. No longer bugs underneath the other.
- Fixed a number of balance problems, mostly making the game slightly more difficult.
- Improved a number of things related to the journal system.
- Incremented version number to 0.71