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achievements always increase replay value, and replay value increases gameplay experience so this is gonna be great

that would be a great way to increase replay time too (as i love to replay metroid prime 1&2 over and over again to get a better time )

Sorry to hear about his death.

As for your vid it's fun to see the evolution of a game series over the years. I should try to do one with Illusiat series one day. However, I wonder how does someone merge multiple videos together to show them side by side with free softwares?

In the interests of adding more life to the game, AB5 v2 now has animated (and in some cases, interactive) objects. One of these was sort of already in v1 (and my previous Alien Breed calc games) - the one-way energy beams - however they weren't previously animated. Now they fizzle away! There are also some other hazards such as opening/closing garbage chutes which you can fall into (which were also in the original Team 17 games). Walking into one-way energy beams in the wrong direction will now also kill you (as it also did in the original Team 17 games).

Additionally there are a few various other tiles being added to the tileset. The Episode I levels will be updated to incorporate the increased tileset and animated objects.

Wow James, you keep on outclassing yourself! Great work dude!

They pretty much nailed it. Rock on dude !

That looks really nice Does every animation have the same number of frames?

The moving beams give the level a lot more life.

Thanks! Not necessarily; whilst each animation uses the core frame counter to determine which frame to show, the method of calculating the frame to show is different for some of the animations.

I know it's a little self serving, but seeing as I've been spending some time lately on TI Story adding a bunch more content, I figured I might as well put together a page on the Alien Breed series, which you can view here. I'll probably go back and add some more info at a later date 
 
 If you weren't aware, TI Story has just recently been re-opened for editing, so if you have any memories or knowledge on any history of the TI community, feel free to head over and add it to the wiki!