Whew, here’s another screenshot at last! The first enemy is flying around and dropping… well, stuff on the player. They look like flashing balls of light, I haven’t come up with a cool name for them yet. The enemy flies in some sort of sideways spiral and drops its payload in three shot bursts.

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Most important thing, however, is that I finally got my gamepad up and running! It took me a while since it’s quite different than keyboard controls. At first I didn’t really want to add gamepad support, since most pc gamers use the keyboard anyway, but then I realized that a gamepad will make this game a lot more fun to play and, most of all, a lot more user friendly. Why that is will become clear later. I really should get a new gamepad, though. The one I have is the most basic gamepad you can possibly imagine. Eight buttons and a D-pad, without analog sticks. For this game the D-pad will do, but other games I have planned will require analog controls, so I’m gonna get a better one.