Okay so I improved both the transition and n2DLib, so if anyone wants to try it on color calcs to see if it's any better

http://www.mirari.fr/eTV6

So I started working on level 1 patterns, that's what it gives what now :



I also planned to make the transition better, so that it ends with the black rectangle slowly disappearing instead of brutally like now. Also, fade-in the text at the beginning :E

Updated TNS : http://www.mirari.fr/eTV6

Looking cool to me.

I don't know if it's really necessary tbh. I think I'd rather see the whole screen used and just put lives etc. along the top or bottom of the screen.

With the HUD, the game window is a 240*240 square. Really it doesn't show on the screenshot but it's fitting the screen rather well.

If you really want to widen the game window, I can turn the HUD from 60*240 to 30*240, display score where it doesn't bother the player - ie the corner where the player is not - and bars and chaining status in the HUD.

It's worth noting that I can't use the top of the screen because the enemies' lifebar will be there.

Triple post

I added score counting to the game. Here's how it (will) work(s) :

• Each time your bullet hits an enemy (not necessarily kill it), you get 100 points. So the stronger the enemy, the more points it gives.
  
• Each time you absorb a bullet of your polarity, you get 10 points.
• Each time you kill an enemy, its polarity is remembered and will be displayed. If you kill three enemies of the same polarity in a row, your chain count increases.
  
• If you kill an enemy of a different polarity than the precedent, you break your chain : you lose your chain count and your chain status - the memory of the previously killed enemies. This only happens if you fail to kill three enemies of the same polarity in a row ; killing blue-blue-blue-red doesn't break your chain - it switches it to red, but killing blue-blue-blue-red-red-blue breaks it.
• Each time you kill an enemy, you get 100 * 2^{chain count} points, up to 25 600 points at once (chain count of 8 ).

Someone was asking what was the point of firing at an enemy with the same polarity as his since the opposite polarity does double damages. Well, this is the point : since the opposite polarity does double damages, you have to hit it less times before killing it → less points. On the other hand, killing it with the same polarity fires bullets back, which can be good (absorbing them) or bad (when for example you kill a blue enemy with blue bullets while a red enemy fires at you). So it can get complicated very quickly.

Since I didn't start implementing chaining yet, you can only win 100 points by hitting an enemy and 10 points by absorbing a bullet.