Really small update here people, but I finally tracked down and squashed a little bug that happened on rare occasion since I added the E.T. power-up.

What would sometimes happen is if you collected an Smasher power-up (which should turn your ship green in color or yellow in color if you are damaged at the time) it would instead give your ship the E.T. cloaked look. You wouldn't really have E.T. and would really have the Smasher power-up but when this happened it would or could definitely be confusing.

That bug was finally squashed I do believe, and as always, a developer always hopes that fixing one bug doesn't create another issue somewhere else, lol

I also changed the E.T. power-up so that if you collect this power-up while damaged (red in color), you'll now see your ship cloaked but see a red outline around the edge of your ship indicating that after your E.T. power-up expires, you'll go back to the damaged state and need to wait the remaining time for your ship to self repair.

For example, if you take a hit from an asteroid that doesn't kill you but changes your ship to red and the auto-repair time is 20 seconds… if you collect an E.T. power-up exactly 8 seconds after taking that hit, you'll see the E.T. power-up with a red outline which doesn't change the power-up itself. You'll still be invulnerable until the power-up time expires, but when the power-up time does expire, your ship will go back red in color showing you are still damaged and in auto-repair for the remaining 12 seconds.

Hopefully that makes sense. It's pretty simple to understand just playing the game and seeing it all happen live.

Anyhow, that's it for this update. I'm still trying to figure out how to implement the Monster Rocks into the game in a way that I really like. I've tried and tested a couple of different things, but i'm just not happy with it yet. I don't want to just add something to my game that doesn't feel right or that isn't as much fun as it should be. I'm sure I'll figure it out in time however.

If you have any ideas, notice any imbalances, bugs, or issues.. or if you have any suggestions, as always please feel free to comment below or in the forums for this game!

As always, Rock On!