Things that helped me:
1. Not thinking about the game while playing.
2. Putting population on high to laugh at CPU's that fail at the first hole.
3. Putting population on low to make me feel like I've survived a long time.
At first I was impressed with this vampire. *Fly through the door* *Levitate guard* *Throw off porch* Bam! Slam! *Open door* *Suck blood* Snap! Crackle! Pop!... But after a while I just got the sense that he was lazy. Who uses telekinesis on a simple door?
There is a some video on youtube which shows how to program so that the mouse does the "ghost effect"... the mouse icon just turns out to be the same exact sprite...
*Couple walking down park* Guy: "What's this kid doing?" Lady: "Grrr... I don't know" *Kid spreads wings as if flying an airplane* "Upgrade!" "Another upgrade!" "Dang it, I knew I should've bought that upgrade!"
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