Okay all, here is the early prototype of the new "Hard Rock" game mode, and it is much different than the regular mode in this game.
Right now, all that happens is you have one life and try to survive as long as you can against small asteroids that are shot out like a cannon at you from many different random spots in a closed in room. You'll notice as well that you move much faster, rotating lightning fast and being able to thrust really quickly to avoid danger.
There is currently only two collectible power-ups in the Hard Rock mode, and that is your standard Spi-Rolls and a new Bomb that will blow up all asteroids on the screen when used. To use a collected bomb, simply press your X button on your controller (this is the square button on a Playstation type controller) or if you are using the mouse & keyboard, pressing the TAB button will use a bomb.
Close calls have been reduced to just 100 points each in this mode of play, and the G.E.O.S. bar can still be filled to release a G.E.O.S. gem that would be worth 10,000 points if collected. Filling the G.E.O.S. bar up will NOT be an easy task in this all new survival mode however.
Please keep in mind that my new Hard Rock mode is very early in development, but I wanted to add it to the game for all of you so you can give it a try, make suggestions, and offer me suggestions and ideas as well as feedback as it progresses into something very likely much different than what we see today.
Also in this update is a pretty crucial fix to the Normal game mode where the time to beat for a bonus was not being calculated correctly or even close to fair if you ever crafted or used an A55 Kicker in the previous wave. This has been fixed now, and will probably still see some tweaks, but the problem of seeing requirements to finish a level in like 15 seconds to get a bonus has been resolved.
With all the new content I've added in the past few days to Rock 'N Roll, I'm sure there will be many more things that I need to fix and tweak over the coming weeks to get this game running nice and balanced, but I hope you all are enjoying the new content and additions I am trying to add to the game!
Keep Rockin'! Have fun! :-)