https://bitbucket.org/TheMazinTar/earthling-defenders/downloads#download-367702

Version 2.0 still has Endless mode, which is essentially version 1.0, but the scripted formations the enemies spawn in are much less frequent. I finally decided yesterday to find a new way to get a random number, because the old way was just not working, and I'm so glad that I did because the new way works great! So, more often than not, you'll get a completely random enemy formation.

Aside from that, the entire Story mode is in 2.0, which you guys have never seen before. There's 5 levels, each introducing a new enemy, and a little bit of a story at the beginning of each level, and, of course, at the end of the game. ;]

There's also a menu which is pretty self-explanatory, but there are a couple of things that I want to make clear. Remember during the first week of this competition, which ended close to two months ago, when I was messing around with backgrounds? Well, I never tore out the code for that, I just wasn't using it, so it was always extremely easy for me to tell it to start running again if I wanted to, which I did, because I'd like to have a background. However, I still have my original issue with it - it's distracting, and, a new problem, it's very difficult to see some of the enemy's shots or shields when they're up. Due to its less than greatness, but me wanting something there, I figured that today I'd add a toggle button for ya'all, which is indicated on the menu. What I wanted to clarify is that you can toggle it in-game, too - you don't have to keep jumping back to the menu. Same goes for the music - it can be toggled in-game.

Ah, yes, here's something kind of important - when you're in-game, pressing the escape key will bring you back to the menu, and pressing q while on the menu will quit the game.

Anyways, this has been a ton of fun to make - thanks to everyone for the feedback and for being in the chatroom available for a discussion. Can't wait for the next competition!

I hope you find some time to get in some more work on your game - it's looking good!

- The basics of a story mode (continuing through stages and levels, as well as story screens in between)
- A new enemy (not quite done, but mostly)
- A few tweaks (nothing in particular)

I'll try to keep putting out updates, but I want to get Earthling Defenders finished more, so, even if I don't put out an update, know that I'm still working!

I'll be doing some more work on mine. This is the version that I started on yesterday, the last day of the competition. I had to abandon my other game because of time constraints; I felt like it was more important to end up with a functioning game where people could explore the code than it was to push forward on the other game I had already started, and I knew it would be easier to create a clone than it would be to create a game of my own from scratch in such a short time period.

I want to add in a few other features like a menu, high scores, and credits. After all, GUIs is one of the big things people ask me for help on. This way I'll at least have something to point them to.

But I'm pretty happy with what I ended up with after just one day!

I've got my 'final' post in the Earthling Defenders thread, if you want to read that.

Anyways, rather than rambling on about what was good and bad with this project (I'll make another post for that later), I'm going to throw up a link and let you see. I did track my work time on this project, which came out to be 39.94 hours, plus or minus a little bit for accounting errors. This time was split pretty evenly between actual coding, and looking for graphics/music/sound effect resources.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5moEgyck5X5cDNKbUlrWE50Y3M/edit?usp=sharing