Got it to work pretty well on-calc.  Thanks

For now I'm looking for just the net.
(I should be able to sprite a flat board and pole in profile on my own...at least hopefully)

Maybe snowstorm effects using my sandstorm effect?

Maybe a level in which there's a blizzard?  Or in the middle of a boss battle?

EDIT: hmm, might it be possible to make the weather stuff grayscale?

Looks great!

Imho the snow/rain effects should go a little bit faster so it doesn't look obviously like sprites/lines moving across the screen

EDIT:

After all, long car drives can lead to wondrous coding sprees

I've never been able to get that to work for me...i always get distracted with something or another

I've since added the ability to choose where the object originates in the level.  I'm thinking of developing a better UI for the editor, atm it's kind of messed up (you have to memorize the something like 8 buttons atm

Looks like it's down to 2 options...edited poll.

Also looking for more tile types.

The object (backpack? wut) switches with you.  I might to be able to get explosions somewhat working, but parts of the physic system wouldn't really agree with it (ie the player's horizontal movement is directly controlled by the keys)

Unfortunately I haven't been able to get much done with this over the past few days..but I made some sort of level where the object is to throw the thingy around into holes and bouncing off of walls and such.  I'm getting pretty good at it
inb4 I try to screenie in wabbit and epic fail...

EDIT: screenie.  running in 6mhz

...but the problem is, it's a contest

So I'm looking for more general rules of thumb (if they exist) simple enough to implement on my own.