Alternex 1.1 Goals

With 50 days left before the deadline, it's time for me to get started on revising Alternex, my game for the Imagine Cup competiton. Here's what I intend to do:

• Improve the menu graphics by adding depth (possibly with a 3D tubes look).
• Add a border to the game window. For some reason this seems to add a lot to a game; it takes it from the realm of the OS window to its own context.
  
• Lower the information density of the main playing screen by converting some of the floating-point numbers into other graphical cues.
• Add more "juice" into the user interface.
• Build extra levels to play, and possibly new difficulty settings
• Finally allow the player to replace plants in one action rather than sell and build separately.
• Refine the endgame scoring system. Right now, it's just a barebones system, and I worry that it isn't satisfying. Perhaps a high-score list.
• Find a way to notify the player of important goings-on without using the current in-game popup windows. They annoy people and break the action