Version 0.18

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes: In this special Christmas edition, help Santa fight snowballs with harpoons and machine guns. Tackle the latest of the dangerously evil balls, the Fragile Ball, which will smash into tiny pieces like fireworks.

Version 0.17

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Changes: A bug with Windows installation that has prevented the game from running on machines that didn't have perl 5.6 installed was fixed. New bonus graphics and a border were added.

Version 0.16

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes: This release adds a high score table, new and improved graphics, one new avatar, and (hopefully) faster performance.

Version 0.15

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes: The player can now select from three differenct characters and nine colors. Four of the more dangerous special balls can be turned off from the menu. The ball graphics have been improved.

Version 0.14

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes: Various improvements were made to graphics, including better support for widescreen resolutions. Some changes were made to the gameplay. There's a huge "Deathball meltdown" when the number of deathballs reaches 30, killing everything and everyone. Also, the collision detection is more precise (and more forgiving).

Version 0.13

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes: There are new graphics for the player character. This version also includes a "widescreen mode" for wide aspect ratio displays and a new demo which includes all the special balls in the game.

Version 0.12

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes: Two new ball types are the Seeker Ball, which tracks the player, and the Water Ball, which floods everything with little balls. There are three new weapons: the power wire, the machine gun, and the "Half Cutter". There's a new difficulty level for the lovers of Death Balls, and also some bugfixes, improvements to the menu, and visual enhancements.

Version 0.11

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes: This version introduces a new kind of balloon: the mighty Earthquake ball, which can really shake up the players. Also, there are new game background images after every 10 levels, better joystick support, a help which explains the gameplay, and several other tweaks and visual improvements.

Version 0.10

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes: This release improves the menu (you can toggle the sounds and music on and off), and your preferences and keys are saved into a config file. Also, you can set the difficulty of the game (there are four settings from "easy" to "nightmare").

Version 0.9

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Changes: This release adds installation packages for both Linux/BSD/etc. and Windows. The game balance has been improved, and in multiplayer mode, players who lost all their lives respawn after one minute (it's no fun to be left out).

Version 0.8

The initial public release of Pang Zero.