You're not going anywhere near my balls!

Honestly it was really just several strokes of luck, getting some ball frenzies and other powerups at the same time. Sometimes it just happens. But I think in general the difficulty level is still pretty good, and being only at level 6 there is plenty of room to ramp it up some more I reckon.

- Oshyan

I can't wait! I'm going through withdrawls tonight not having any new Twigatelle bits to play with.

- Oshyan

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Thank you thank you thank you!  You fixed the high scores, plus twiggles now remembers my name (but he always forgets my birthday).

JavaJones, you didn't post your 2mil score, so I'll claim victory tonight 

Tim, good work on level 6, ball frenzy on my first shot, it was mayhem.  I'm looking forward to seeing some more shapes, how about some triangles?

Ah good - thank you for letting me know.

You got to level 6 - I should stop worrying about making stuff too hard eh?

Triangles is a good one, and probably quite feasible to add.

New ways to score points coming up in the next release. I hope that's not going to be a problem for you big shots 

Is it just me or does disabling the background music not actually do anything?

EDIT: It turned off after finishing the first level (I lost).

I've had a few random problems with sounds, the other night on a brand new install (someone else's computer) the background music got stuck in a very short loop and I had to exit the game to turn it off.. and last night (on my computer with the current release) the normal sounds went strange, there was only a 'donk' kind of sound for hitting the pegs and the ball saved/not saved sound didn't play at all, until I exited and restarted the game...

Doesn't really bother me, but just thought I better mention it...

No new high score tonight, just can't seem to get past level 3.. 

Anyway, can you please please please fix the frenzied assassins bug, got it quite a few times tonight...

Next on my list, I promise! 

Level 4 runs very slowly on a netbook.  I blame it on the particles when the bumpers explode.

How does the jnlp know when to update?

Now "unable to launch the application" I suspect it's to do with the new update mechanism? Here's the error output:

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: (http://www.head-in-the-clouds.com/game/Twiggles.jar, 0.02)
	at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadJarFiles(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadEagerorAll(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.downloadResources(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Edit: Grabbing the actual Twiggles.jar URL manually and opening it directly gives me: "Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from" and then the path to my browser temp file.

- Oshyan

1. I _think_ that the assassin frenzy bug is fixed. My test case is now ok anyway.

Thank you...  

2. I also made the assassin ball more fun.

I can't wait..  

3. May have fixed the auto-download of latest update thingy for you too. Is someone able to let me know please?

Well the game updated first go, so without extensive testing...  

Another build in the pipeline - ohhh if I could just get my weekends to myself  

hahaha hahahah... as if  

Working now. Thanks!!

- Oshyan

OK I ran into the assassin ball bug again. Those balls sure do love each other... do they have a programmed attraction? Why would they attract each other?

Here's a screencast of the issue:
http://www.oshyan.com/tmp/twig_bug_assassin1.swf

- Oshyan

Dagnabbit! Ok that is extremely helpful - I'll be on it today. What was the sequence: ball frenzy then assassin?

Thanks!

The game seems to run much faster now, though the framerate is a near constant 46 FPS.

1. The ball now hits the point where your mouse pointer is aiming it!

It is still overshooting when I aim way off to the side. Try it on level 1. Shoot for the top-left and top-right pegs. If I aim for the top center of these two pegs, the ball usually goes completely over the peg.

4. Bumpers fly in from off the screen instead of the top corners!

Awesome! Don't forget about the magic trail/explosion particle effect. There's a white pixel that shows on top (towards the left) of the screen the entire time when there is no magic trail following the ball and no pegs are exploding.