Midweek update: fixes and optimizes

Yoooo

Another week, another mid-week update. (doh!)

Fix

There were some crashes happening due to all the sprites I deleted in the last update. This should be fixed now.

Optimize

I included some optimizations I have been working on. Something called "instance pooling", so certain engine procedures are skipped when creating and destroying thousands of projectiles per second.

And it was a success! I'm seeing anywhere from 5-20% framerate boosts from it.

Reworking

Particles have also changed. I am trying something else to optimize them. A bug in the code caused the particles to look the way they do, and... I kind of like it. So I'm keeping it this way for now. Let me know what you think. Cleaner might be better, when the game is already super-chaotic.

Be aware

Poison, slow, etc, currently don't show in shot particles. Particles are a work in progress, and I wanted to push this update out quickly to fix the game crashes.

Enjoy~