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11/26/10: Misc performance improvements. Added shortcuts for the towers so you can use 1-6 to buy towers.

11/25/10 Part 2: Showed the score. Decided to give the rapid towers a little extra punch. They now bounce the enemies back a little

11/25/10: Misc tweaks and an expanded menu system.

11/21/10: The mover balls now work a lot better. Won't escape the world and move in the correct direction.

11/20/10 Part 3: And another level with mover balls getting a unique ability.

11/20/10 Part 2: Ok, make that 2 levels.

11/20/10: Made a basic menu so one of two levels could be selected.

11/14/10: Made the fire balls go through towers. It only damages the tower once on its way through.

11/8/10: Made the swarm balls behave more like a swarm instead of just following the leader.

11/7/10: Tinkering with swarms balls.

11/5/10 Part 2: Added some music

11/5/10: Improved the range indicator so it shows when placing new tower. Showed which tower was selected. Allowed hiding of range when empty space was selected.

11/2/10: Switched the look of a selected tower. Removed the reloaded LED from all towers by default. It will show up at a later point. Fixed the range indicator for the sniper tower.

10/31/10: Added a range indicator for towers.

10/29/10: Set up pause button and made next wave button only add 1 new wave. Improved the tower placer so you could see what type of tower you are currently placing.

10/28/10: Improved performance again. Added a next wave button and keyboard shortcut (n).

10/24/10:

• Added sell button.
• Added shortcut keys u, s, esc for upgrade, sell, cancel in the tower store.
• Added next enemy name and descriptions.
• Initial towers can't be sold for a profit.
• Improved upgrade system.

10/23/10 Part 3: A very rough upgrade system has been put in place.

10/23/10 Part 2: Ok, the back wall can be damaged again.

10/23/10: Added images of the walls in the Tower Stat section. In process of setting up upgrades.

10/22/10: Added a cancel button for tower building.

10/18/10 Part 2: Made splitters actually split.

10/18/10: Found a neat way to cut cpu use by about 20-30%.

10/17/10 Part 2: Added the healer tower. Currently no limit to how much it can heal.

10/17/10: Added a lot of level information:

• Lives
• Gold
• Next enemy name placeholder
• Descriptions for tower fields
• Levels left

Gave you gold when a ball was destroyed. Made towers cost gold. I'm almost sorry about that last point.

10/16/10: All of the ball animations now should be good.

10/15/10: I have been trying many different ways to remove the ball animation clipping. I think I finally have something that works. Now to apply it to the rest of the animations.

10/9/10 Part 3: Made it so the towers that don't fire (like walls) are always animated.

10/9/10 Part 2: Added projectile rotations, made the explosion work.

10/9/10: Added more towers, some explosions (animation works, doesn't hurt anything yet), some more projectiles and misc little game changes.

10/7/10: Added a lot of animations. Many more still to come.

10/6/10: When you click on a tower button, it shows information about that tower. Rapid and Standard can actually create a tower.

10/5/10: Added some graphics back. The buttons don't work *yet*.

10/4/10: Time to start making the UI more functional. Starting with a fairly simple background without buttons or information.

10/2/10: Having too much fun tweaking performance.

9/29/10: Many performance improvements. It runs about 30% faster on slower computers.

9/28/10: Limited range of towers. Gave each tower their own bullet type. Reduced power of the rapid tower's bullets. Game/menu buttons are still not functional.

9/25/10: Made projectiles fire and home in on targets in smoother fashion. Set up more complex level where different groups of balls appear every x seconds.

9/24/10: Corrected collision detection for some new objects. Any thoughts on the game name? Still not coming up with a new idea. Added alternate image for the tower placer so you can see when it isn't legal.

9/23/10: Corrected tower placement so you could place on destroyed tower's location.

9/22/10: Made the game a bit less of a memory hog. (For the geekier audience members: Object pools) The paddle less frequently skips balls to the right that it used to think were out of reach.

9/20/10: Altered font to 7pt to reduce footprint. Added an image to show where you are placing the tower. Limited where a tower can be placed.