X-Bomber the GameIntroduction »Welcome to the home of X-Bomber the Game: a vertical-scrolling spaceshooter for Windows, based on the Japanese sci-fi TV series: Star Fleet
It features lots of arcade action, weapons and explosions.
News »  Complete
- Dynamic adjustment to Braincom sprite scaling during Dai-X junction to accommodate 25% downscale of sprite.
- Dai-X fighter missiles reinstated as actual missiles, rather than homing lasers
Queued
- Dai-X fighter 'boosters', based on Blitzkrieg Dai-X
- Dai-X Special Weapon: Point singularity bomb
Tweak shader parameters
Improve attracted object movement (check shader example)
Light rays
Additional damage to ground targets? (indicated via particles?)
Make black hole weapon available to enemies?
- Level 16: Grey attack cruiser variant logic 
Player Ships
- Wingblade player ship improved in many areas
- X-Bomber Prototype turrets fire yellow tracers, rather than blue.
- X-Bomber neck lasers improved
Level-Specific
- Continue work on L16 reactor progressed
Player Weapons
- Dai-X quantum blaster - unselected/beam mode re-worked
- Dai-X pulse gun shots travel faster.
- Dai-X arc sabre weapon:
creates damage particles on target enemies
consumes ammunition when no enemy present
Gameplay
- Improvements to Dai-X junction and control mapping systems
- Improvements to shield and damage indication systems
- Hit boxes reshaped on Dai-X fighters
- Bug fixed that occurs when a Dai-X fighter is destroyed
- Pulse guns selected by default when returning to X-Bomber from Dai-X
Graphics and General
- Enemy lightning weapon collision effect logic and appearance improved
- Alpha channel added to power-up sprites
- Pause button moved to pause/break key
Menus
- Main menu colour change option - (WIP)
- Flashing cursor added to high score menu, to make the name input field more apparent. You might perhaps have noticed a few small changes here and there around the site.
After so many years, there are a lot of things about the site that are in the state that they need to be kept in.
At the same time, there are a lot of improvements that the site could still really do with.
The news system, including its navigation has been improved a bit.
Among other things, some new queries were written to allow hopping between articles without needing to go back to the article list.
Behind the scenes, X-Bomber the Game is moving forward a fair bit.
The end-of-game reactor is coming along well. All the bits that I anticipated to be a bit tricky are now finished and the remaining finishing touches and attacks should be more straightforward.
At the same time, I found a way around the odd polling that the Fusion runtime has for the pause/break key, which meant that the game wouldn't pause reliably when pressing pause/break.
It's quite a round-about fix but it works well.
I'm going to pull out of my to-do list what items will be worked on in v0.84l.
Hopefully, v0.84k will be ready before long.  This year, we had quite a Stingray-centric Christmas ...
I found a new, sealed, 2001 clockwork-driven Stingray from Vivid Imaginations on eBay, which set me back a little, for my daughter.
It's one of the best toys I've bought in ages. It's big and it's very accurate despite the back being a bit chunky to fit the mechanism in.
It has a clutch on the clockwork mechanism, so that it doesn't start to unwind until you press the wheel in on the bottom.
The torpedo launchers work really well.
The first instalment of the Stingray Comic Anthology, which Anderson has done for Stingray's 60th anniversary is really great.
It's bigger than I expected and the paper quality is lovely. The brightness of the colours is amazing: far better than previous compilations.  I have found another page of this Italian comic book nativity story, featuring Dai-X:
Trider G7 Goes to Bethlehem  I wish everyone a merry, peaceful and wonderful Christmas and all the best for 2025.
In other news, I'm managing to get a little bit done on X-Bomber the Game, as is often the way, this time of year.  My calico fantail has been having quite a hard time over the last several weeks. I'd been trying pretty much everything to get Thunder feeling better.
I was having some success, but it was backwards-and-forwards.
What seems to have pushed us forward more than anything else was changing his food away from normal AquaCare Goldfish to AquaCare Goldfish Japan, which is apparently meant for fantails.
Anyway, if you'd noticed that not-as-much had been going on with the site at the moment, this has been part of the reason.  I found this photo in a discussion on low-angle macro photography on nitter.
This image was captured on an iphone 'camera' and has had a lot done in photoshop, but the outcome was nice and artistic.  I like this Goodsmile/Moderoid Dai-X model build and there are quite a few good photos of it.
A lot of work clearly went into painting it and making it look a lot more realistic.
I do wonder whether it got made to look a bit too dirty.
Even my Subaru looks cleaner than that.  I have a new image of Anthony's PPA project, thanks to Dan at SFFB.
I really look forward to seeing the finishing touches done on this.
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