Release 2 of Nibbler now available

Vic Nibbler release 2 is the same game but with a number of improvements.

Firstly, there are now double the number of mazes you can encounter and the difficulty has been adjusted to help you see more of the game. In particular if you lose a life Nibbler will step down in speed slightly to give you a better chance.  To get far you will still need to preserve those lives and as before Nibbler will continue to get faster.

Another big change are to the controls. I have made a number of improvements to make them more responsive.  I found two bugs that would sometimes make the controls seem unfair - one was with the game timing (a rookie mistake if ever there was one) and the other was introduced when I optimised the game to fit into the limited memory I had to play with - I unwittingly disabled diagonal controls on the joystick, so if you were holding left and up for example, only left would be acted upon, even if left was blocked and up was not. This fix alone changes the difficulty of the game.  I also added a brief turn memory, you can tap the next direction you wish Nibbler to go just before you get to the junction.

I've also made some minor improvements here and there to help balance the difficulty as the game progresses.  I can get to wave 10 with a bit of practice. I'd be surprised if anyone can get to wave 20.