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Colors

In PewPew 1.2 (not yet released), you can colorize you nickname. It uses what I call the "Quake 3 text color convention". Indeed, in Quake 3 you could colorize your nickname by inserting "^X", where X would be a number between 0 and 7. Each number was associated with a certain color. For instance the nickname "^1Hello" would appear red. "^4World" would appear blue. You could even do combinations, like "^1Hello^4World". Well the same thing is possible in PewPew 1.2, except that there are more colors to choose from. The new feature in action Here is a picture showing each color, with its associated symbol: I hope this will result in a colorful online score table! (more on that later).

Survey results

I had exams, so I could not really work on PewPew, but now I am back. Let's take a look at the survey results. There were 46 responses, and I started having responses only minutes after I posted the link on touchArcade's forum. One cool thing is that they appear in real time, in a spreadsheet. Well done Google. And wow, I can actually copy paste the generated summary into this post. Here we go: The game modes are pretty even, though it would appear you like shooting more than dodging. What is your favorite game mode? What is your least favorite game mode? I find the music excellent, and you seem to agree. That's good because the composer is not cheap, he earns 50% of the profit* made with PewPew. The soundtrack is available for free by the way. How would you rate the music? Very poor Excellent Ah! Google is not perfect after all, they messed up the parsing! That's about all we learn from this question, because I already knew that I am good at making a game balanced. Th...