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  • ZEROCRON 1.11 is live

    Made Level 64 a bit easier, so humans may beat it 😉

    Thanks to Onkel Jo for playing it through, now I´ve got quite a list of improvements to do.

  • ZEROCRON Version 1.10 is live

    Made level 1-20 a bit harder and more interesting, especially level 1-10 were thought for learning the controls but seemed to boring. So I added some nice enemy formations. Thanks to STG shoot’em up(shmup)_JP for the nice review and suggestions (as far as I can translate it 😉 ).

  • Interesting fake 3d Effect?

    While experimenting with synchronized flying squadrons, I spawned four enemies with only 2 pixel distance, looks nice somehow, might investigate that further ;).

  • ZEROCRON running on my Arcade

    Just for fun. This is where I go to refuel my retrogaming batteries ;).

  • Zerocron Release

    Final fixes and changes done in version 1.09 and now finally released on Steam, phew.

    • added windowed mode / gfx settings
    • now showing a little bar if you collect energy from asteroids, speeds up your shooting-speed
    • made some bosses a bit harder
    • added a little gimmick in shop after level 24

    Thanks to Lina, Benni and Felix for your input 🙂

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1964580/ZEROCRON/

  • Zerocron Release on Steam

    Finally ZEROCRON is up on steam. Well, at least as “soon to be released” for now. Made some final tweaks, now adding some steam-achivements.

    Before I was stuck in the optimization loop of death for quite a long while.

    I hope anyone else beside me will like and play it ;)!

    What also took me much too long was composing a bit of music myself, just two songs, for bosslevels and the extro. But that also was an interesting experience.

    Thanks to my children for motivating me to finally release it! 🙂

  • Shotsucker

    Added another enemy in the later levels (around 60+), it attracts your shots and charges itself with it for an attack.

  • Zerocron better vapour trails

    Vapour trails now look smoother and need less performance.

    Also the extro is finally finished and I added difficulty modes. Hopefully everything finished so far, maybe I´ll add some more gimmicks, just for the fun of it ;).

  • Zerocron Trailer

    Published the Trailer for Zerocron, created quite a while ago.

    Also, added Dual-Stick-Controls for running in an actual arcade cab.

  • Zerocron – enemypointer

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    I added an enemy/bonus pointer (the red thing floating around the player) which shows you the direction of the nearest enemy or, if not available, the nearest bonus item. You already have a radar, but especially at the end of the level it makes is much easier to find what is left.