No more “preview builds”, this is the real deal folks.  I’ve just uploaded the new release here.

In my best tacky movie trailer voice I say “If you see one “Sharky’s Air Legends” this year – SEE THIS ONE!”.

I’m stoked to release what I consider a complete game. By complete I mean, it is less a sandbox experience, more a gaming experience.  The gameplay now has purpose & tension with scoring implemented and a game over screen showing player stats. Rest assured I will continue to enhance air legends adding better and better features etc…  I also can’t wait to bring it to the living rooms of XBOX 360 owners across the world, when Microsoft open the home-brew games floodgates to 10 million XBOX Live users.

There is a huge number of changes in this version (some of which you’ll have seen in my recent “preview” builds).  Barely a piece of code went untouched/unoptimized.

• Stability improved! solved all XBOX 360 crashes, so hopefully helps those that experienced Windows crashes. None of which I’ve been able to repro.
• HUGE improvements to the AI aircraft
• can choose team size for a much larger battle. Up to 5 vs 5. (Allies vs Axis)
• choice of game play between Battle & co-op. Co-op ensures players fly the aircraft of the same team
• Smarter camera keeps closest enemy in view, or if too far away looks in that general direction
• New “Look around” control, lets you override the smart camera for a period of time
• now team based scoring. +1 points for bullet hit on an enemy. -1 points for bullet hit on a friendly
• selectable Score Limit + game over screen with player stats
• Smoke is thicker/darker the more you are damaged
• your aircraft doesn’t leave the screen view so often. Not perfect, but good enough for now
• Now cross-platform with an XBOX 360 build available too
• memory usage optimizations
• refactored particle systems for less memory & better performance
• Special Maneuver can now be performed with either the “Left Shoulder” button or “Left Trigger” on XBOX 360 controllers

Go grab the new Windows & XBOX 360 version from the Latest Build page here.

One last thing…

Don’t forget to help me win a Nintendo Wii!

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