I haven't done much work on this for around 4-5 months; I lost a lot of motivation when I hit struggle town with the co-op link play feature In order to get development back in action, I'm going to focus on the other features & level design for the time being.

It's quite possible that the link play might be dropped for v2.0.0, or more correctly, omitted until further notice. Having said that, 2.0.0 does still have plenty of other improvements over 1.x.

Oh look it's a JamesV! Welcome back, great to see this project still alive
Remember that you only have 1.5 months left to finish epII:evolution according to your signature

Thanks! Hah, I have NO idea what you're talking about.... 

But yeah in all honesty, I doubt this year will happen. I haven't even started level layouts, etc. yet, and I still have more coding to do. But it will get there eventually!

I'm really looking forward to this. The co-op feature looked really cool but i can see how that could cause a lot of headaches. I don't know of any link-play game with a smooth scrolling tilemap (though maybe Hayleia's Super Smash Bros Open comes close). I feel like the Alien Breed series has always been pushing the limits, i remember being really impressed by the 8-way scrolling way back when, and now all this!

At this stage I'm just working on the other features and then level design. After that's all done if I'm keen I'll have another crack at fixing up the co-op issues, so we'll see how I go..

I've added a couple more animated/interactive features to the tileset (both taken from the Team 17 original games). Firstly, "ventilation fan sucker thingys", which kill you if you get sucked in. Secondly, the crushers, which I guess are fairly self explanatory

Now I'll move on to designing the 12 new levels for the new campaign.

I really like both of those! The vent suckers are a really cool idea. For the crushers, will they crush you even if they are opening? They look really great (though really annoying)!

Thanks! No, they only crush you if they fully close on you

I'm fine with no coop mode, it just looks too fun to not be tried even in single player. Regardless, good luck! Glad this is still alive.

My current thinking is to release v2.0.0 just as single player only with the other new features, campaign, etc., and then tinker with co-op again possibly for a v2.1.0 update if I can get it working

I should get it too. It's been a long time this game interest me and I haven't been playing a calc game that's not mine for years.