The other night I tried running The Swarm. It no longer works. It throws an error reading the assets files. I decided to fix it... Then I saw my source code. Wow. I had NO idea what I was doing at the time. My bytecode files are jumbled in with my source files. At the time I didn't know how to build jar files and I was stuck on the idea of having only the jar, no other related files necessary. Now I am perfectly fine with files external to the jar file. This would allow users to be able to customize assets or config settings.
On the other hand,y lack of knowledge resulted in an accident that ended up being the game's unique angle, and became the very heart of The Swarm. Sadly in my rebuilding of The Swarm, my improved movement and pursuit code is too effective. The enemy ships actually come at the player without overshooting and hyper accelerating. So now the game is too easy. The enemies zig zagging across the screen made the original version extremely challenging.
In light of this I think I'll have to make the rewrite a totally different game. In the meantime I'll fix the original.
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