About of the "bad color should give some penalty" topic: I agree it makes the first levels too easy because the UFOs are very slow, but in later levels the UFOs are much faster and it won't give too much advantage... or do you think it is too easy even in the last levels? I'm interested in hearing comments about this because in the first version I did the UFOs were a little faster in all levels, but I received some complaints asking to slow down the UFOs a little. I don't know if Kongregate players are a little more "hardcore gamers" and that is the reason you find it too easy, but I would like to hear comments about if you think that changing the UFO speed could solve the problem...
Thanks, I appreciate your feedback a lot. I'll upload a new version with keyboard shortcuts for changing the bullet color in a few hours. Do you think that the numbers 1-4 would be a good shortcut? They are near the ESC key, that is used for pausing the game...
Hi, I'm this game's developer.
In the first arcade levels you can get away with using bullets of only one color because UFOs are so slow that you can change their color and destroy them without any problem. However, they start to go faster in level 3-4 and in the final levels you would have many problems if you don't choose the right color.