As you suspected, this didn't run on my Mac. It looks like it might work if you changed forward slashes in the paths instead of backslashes. Does that break paths on Windows? I forget. It's been a while since I did a game in Java.
Anyway, I saw shader loading and OGG and a whole lot of interesting technical details go by, unfortunately as part of exception stack traces. Too bad. See you next LD!
Huh. The screen cracking effect didn't work on my machine (Windows 8 64 bit) for some reason. I was about to say that one of my only real changes would be some indication of lives left, which apparently were totally intended to be there. Anyways, fun game, although around level seven the relative speeds of you and the bullets you're avoiding are such that there's not much you can do but die. Good music, as well. It wasn't initially obvious what the significance of the ten seconds was - maybe if the screen cleared at ten seconds and upon death the clock reset back to the beginning of ten seconds then the levels would feel more distinct from each other, but then again, I am heavily influenced by VVVVVV, so my idea of "good" may just be "similar to VVVVVV", which that would be.
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Anyway, I saw shader loading and OGG and a whole lot of interesting technical details go by, unfortunately as part of exception stack traces. Too bad. See you next LD!