More than half of the foes finished! I’ll probably release a “foe demo” when they’re all done, which will be similar to survival mode in the first game.

Lots of destructible obstacles added, including icecubes and bubbles, which can contain foes!

More patterns. Last screenshot’s the most interesting: Foes with breakable parts and projectiles!

Currently programming attack patterns for non-boss foes, and I’ll probably be doing this for two whole weeks. But I’m having a lot of fun with it, so that’s good.

Added some new bullet behaviors that didn’t exist in BH1, such as bullets orbiting around other bullets, and I think the patterns are looking a lot more interesting so far.

The basics of multiplayer work!
I started off controlling all 4 players with one gamepad, which was a bit overpowered, as you can see below. I’ve separated the controls now, and I’ve ordered another Xbox 360 gamepad so that I’ll have 4 input devices. Was actually quite easy to add multiplayer: I mostly just replaced every reference to the player with a vector (array) of players. Now I’m going to modify the game difficulty appropriately – I’ll take some ideas from Jamestown’s multiplayer mechanics.

Here’s what happens when you use all four bombs at once. This won’t be in the game though.