tbh it was just one of the easier ones
pretty much all the other ideas would requite some special code (well maybe not the nethapult but when someone makes a 4*4 lobster sprite that actually looks like a lobster let me know ) (as for the ricochet I'm running into bugs with the slow-moving version that still need to be ironed out so idk).

Anyways, flamethrower is somewhat working, just need to find out a way so the player isn't torched himself due to how it fires..it's just an offset thing but it's getting fun playing around in gshoot, where it's hardly readible and all the lines run together in a big run-on line of code.
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Daayyuummm son...that looks nice.

Are there even any other platform shooter games like this in existence? The bullet animations are great. I hope you're not having too much trouble with the AI. Also nice job on the speed.

Are all the blocks going to be that solid white, or are you going to have other types of tiles? One small complaint I have is that having the name of the weapon appear in black in teh corner looks a little odd. Maybe have it be centered and in white?

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Wow, this is looking really awesome Darl. Nice work on the speed increase too! =)

Just a glitch with the bouncer weapon: When shooting down while jumping, eventually there are dozens of bullets and the game starts to lag. They loop from the bottom of the screen to the top. Not sure if you want that to happen.

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I'll look into that, I've had a few glitches with the Bouncer and even "fixed" some of them but this hasn't happened..

Do you mean more bullets spawn for no reason or it keeps shooting?  (btw the bouncing things should explode after a while, is that happening?)

I found the bug with the bouncer thing, for some reason instead of the vertical velocity switching when it hit the ground/a tile above/below it would reverse the horizontal velocity instead of the vertical velocity   Fixed.
Also there was some lunatic check I put in that doesn't do the job properly, allowing the wraparound to happen.  That's fixed now as well.  If I'm correct it would happen when shooting up as well, tho I think a pre-release bugfix I did (before any projectile going above the screen would freeze the calc epic crash etc but that's gone) might have taken care of that...
Not able to get a fixed version out just yet as msd8x is having its mood swings again, but once I can tilp it over I'll put it up

As for the blitz gun jumping thing I kind of had that in mind.  It's "backfire"

Spoiler For Blitz Cannon:

Somewhat like a cannon from WWI, except handheld and without the ball.  Run up to the other guy and give it a go (or point down, the backfire is huge).  Takes a while to reload, but deals great damage.
(Note, must be airborne to have backfire up/down, due to how the engine is put together.  I'm working on that.)

The walljump...it seems like that only started recently because it wasn't doing it before
I think I have an idea of how to fix it because it did the same thing in Tio.  Odd that it's happening in this program too but oh well.
(I considered walljumping at one point, like in some of the programs from shortly before the axe contest, but ultimately decided against it.  It's a shmup after all, not a puzzle platformer or whatever)

Yeah, for some reason I made it so the char bounces back if it/he goes off the screen.  I should probably just have it scroll faster after it gets past a point, well another point b/c there's three already..2AM coding ftw

I've been working on where to put the text, and it's resulted in me having to make some name changes.  For some odd reason a bunch of World War II references keep popping into my head (blitzkrieg, kamikaze, etc) so some sort of setting might be taking shape?  idk

How does "Blaze" sound for the flamethrower?  I almost took another name from Ratchet and Clank but I need to stop doing that at some point (blitz cannon, r60 storm (tho in the game it's n60), the grenade was almost a "mini-nuke")

EDIT: 181 vote-ups \o/

I think the text is fine where it is actually, same for the weapon names, although the r60 storm one confuses me a bit.