Nice.  Thanks for playing.


When you destroy the final boss, you actually become invulnerable, game input is disabled and your ship is no longer painted to the screen.  But, there may still be some green animated balls floating around you.  So, you disappear, but you're not dead    In short, you won!  Good job!

That's hilarious 


Normally the levels in side-scrollers are represented with grid maps.  I used such maps in my Pitfall entry.  But, for Squarius I took a much simplier approach.  There are 8 pieces that can be put together in different sequences to form a level.  Pieces include a wave attack, a triplet attack, a wall with a hole in it, the explosive barrier, the shrinkers, the cave, a boss, etc.  Each piece is affected by the level number (e.g. bosses become more difficult) and a random number generator (e.g. the hole in the wall will appear at different positions). 

Essentially, when the stage begins, a clock is started.  The sequence for each stage looks something like: at time T1, manifest wave attack, at time T2, manifest triplet attack, etc.  Originally, this was encoded with 2 arrays of integers.  But, to save bytes, it was ultimately encoded more compactly.