…and declared as almost bugfree. There seems to be a bee which does not behave as it should, but with some modification, everything should go, or fly, it’s way ;)

As soon as we have the modified clouds, we _might_ consider taking a video, but the chance of “more screenshots” is slightly higher.

Musicmaster Alexander “Op3rator” Oldemeier came up with new tune previews today. It’s pretty amazing and rockz the house. If it will happen that Giana’s Return is unplayable or crap, at least the music will save everything ;)

Alex’s extraordinary depressive chipmusic style is really a gift for the project!
Thank you for your work!

The lava world has got some tuning and looks much better than before. Here is the proof:

Additional to the screenshots there are of course more news. The lava world is fully converted to the new set, which makes a sum of 28 complete levels. We are working on three more worlds and then we can consider this game finalized.

Unfortunatly we wont make the release at end of April, but we had neat progress almost every day of the week and hope to keep the speed.

Update: PLEASE DO NOT HOTLINK PICTURES, THANKS!

Today three full levels of “World 4” were readjusted/rethemed, unfortunatly less than expected, but still better than nothing. Another funky thing… we work on a second ingame surprise ;)

* Operator is working on the music these days
* The GFX artist has delivered a cleaned up world 4
* Levels of world 4 should be adjusted by end of this week
* We are working on a “hidden” ingame surprise

[thUg] has been sick the past week, he’ll go on with GFX soon.
Our organizer had an accident (read more here: http://pdroms.de/news/9864/)
The rest of the team seems to be fine… ;)

Our all beloved coding machine from France did a great job the past days and the bugtracker has become slightly empty. Overall the progress speed concerning the code is excellent, while the graphics part slows down again (always the same…).

We’ll keep you guys updated! Promised ;)

To speak out straight, some of the screenshots in the screenshot section are pretty old and heavily outdated. For those who are interested in keeping the old pictures, make a backup of them, as they will be replaced in the next few days.

…everything is a little bit darker now, but with more features ;) The new theme also turns out to handle every previous entries 100% correctly, which is a nice thing :)

Today we thought to keep you updated about the ongoing bugfixes and improvements.

• First of all we have extended the time limit from 99 seconds per level to 120 seconds. A bunch of people who were able to play a preview complained about “lack of time” as they prefer exploring levels and collecting as many items as possible. Those 120 seconds should be now really more than enough for everyone, even for “explorers” and “diamond collectors”.
• We have two types of wall bricking now. As you know if Giana has her curly hairstyle she can destroy bricks – depending on her power there are two ways the brick disappears. If you have the energy-ball and you are bricking a wall, the brick get’s dissolved. As soon as you get stronger and have shooting ability, your “energy” level raises too and if you destroy a brick it splits into 4 parts as you know it from the preview videos. This is more like an eye candy and grant at least a little bit of difference during gameplay.
• Here comes something we have shameless stolen from “Super Mario” :) If you destroy a brick, you will get one extra score. This might be not a lot, but the main goal is not to destroy as many bricks as possible. Maybe as soon as the game is out some ppl might be worried about “who has the highest” score, so adding this ability to bricks, will be an important factor for score hunters. One point might be not a lot, but see everything in bigger dimensions. We might raise the amount of points you get from 1 to 5 or 10, but we are pretty unsure about that. After all you get 50 points just for squeezing an regular enemy ;)
• The whole intro stuff is done – Credits, a “special inspriation screen”, language selection and then it goes over to the titlescreen from where you can start the game – just finetuning left there.
• Last but not least, our coder fixed something which is of internal matter, the test mode shows everything animated now – which is a lot more comfortable when testing things ;)