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9 August 2000
The Latest News
As usual, most of the work this month has involved making new levels, including the new city shown in these screenshots. The following improvements were also made to the game engine:
- The game engine now supports weather effects such as snow and ice, illustrated in the screenshots shown here.
- The police now get tougher on later levels.
- Negotiations for the soundtrack were finally finished. The tracks used by the game are as follows: (You'll find a lot of these tracks (along with the band's albums) at mp3.com.)
- Why Live and Playing No Games by Anomos
- Da Bitches by Chuckie Dogg Fresh
- Bleed and Yellow Bag by Cynic Guru
- A PC & A Microphone by eH Factor
- Krebstar 5.0 by Gigas
- Headstone by JED
- June-bug by mellow26
- Fear Year by The Oldominion
- Quest For 5 Mics by Seeds of Labor
- Shot Out and Crime In 99 by Venom Records
- Lots of minor bugs have been fixed and the game engine has been further optimised to improve performance.
- A professional graphic artist is now working to improve the quality of the textures used by the game.
That's it for this update - see you next month!
James Daniels
Apex Designs
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