Hello,

So this is my first progress report on the game I hope to have ready for the Codea Play competition. The working title is Black Hole (EDIT: since renamed to Time Winders to reflect the emphasis on time manipulation during gameplay (EDIT: since renamed to Spacetime cos it sounds cooler)). The story goes that an inhabited solar system's star is about to explode. Your job is to guide a number of airborne (spaceborne?) ships to their home planets so that they can teleport to safety before the impending black hole swallows them. But you're just one person, who can only guide one ship at a time. In order to get all the ships to safety in time, you'll have to manipulate time itself. Also if you could try not to cause any collisions that would be super!

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The todo list goes:

• Title/Menu screen and level design (levels are currently randomly generated)
• Change from "matching ships to planets" to "matching planets to worm holes". Makes more sense and ups the stakes somewhat - saving whole planets instead of just a few ships :).
• Make the sun and background (and possibly the planets) appear to spin in the direction that time is currently travelling. The worm holes will probably be constantly spinning.
• Improve the "you lost" screen a bit. I'll try to do an "everything being sucked through the black hole" animation.
• Create a level complete screen.
• Various game mechanics improvements and bug fixes.

Special thanks to Simeon as I'm currently using his starfield code for my backdrop (hoping that's ok?), and am in the process of incorporating the amazing CircleMask class in an effort to get my sun to spin.

Cheers.