I figured out the small hitbox thing last night playing do don pachi. or don do pachi. or whatever it is.

*downloads*

w00t score: 8198 @ generation 37 for endless fire!

Edit: typo

Edited by Monkey 'o Doom

You know this means war.

I'll be back with a score to defeat that one, you just wait!

Well you might close other applications and turn off any hard hitters like NOrton. YOU might be able to config your graphics card too.

I can give you insight into why this is a memory eater if you don't program.

First the player ship must loop through all the bullets, for each bullet it must preform a chjeck to see it thebullet is inside the player hit area. So you are probably talking up to 300 calculations that are preformed about 60 frames a second. meanin the bullet checking alone is like 18000 calcs per second.

now add on the enemy collision checking, you probably have the enemy checking

the postions of the ship and taking damage at a fixed trate. 

 

Edited by Pixel_Outlaw

16100, generation 38

you must be really bad if you get beaten by my lame reflexes
wasn't even difficult so I expect to get pwned soon :(

Hah, 16384. Pwn that.