Welcome to the Spin page!

The current version is: 1.0.5.0 Spin is now available for Xbox! Please see our purchase page on Xbox Live Arcade. Do you have suggestions for how to improve Spin? Please send us feedback: spin@niftibits.com We would love to hear your suggestions, new feature ideas, bug reports, anything!

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Version history:

1.0.5.0

• Minor bug fixes for xbox release
• Improved pause control
• Improved level up UI

1.0.4.0

• Released officially for 360 (trying again)
• New Pirate ship: Mauraders! Look out!
• Level tuning
• Minor visual and game play improvements

1.0.3.0

• Released officially for 360 (awaiting review)
• Visual optimizations to make the game run faster
• Game objective is clearer to the newbie (you no longer have to navigate to the help)
• Little blue smoke trails behind your ship and others
• All good things to collect glow green (orbs, powerups)
• Other numerous improvements, we don't remember them all (sorry we made you wait!)

0.9.0.0

• Now on the XBOX360!!!
• Added "raider", a new tougher pirate
• Added weapon powerups
• Added High scores
• Improved Level-up experience
• Improved HUD layout
• Fixed bug where stars and opening screen did not show up on some computers
• Improvement in turnng sensitivity
• backing out of the game in play mode takes you to the title screen now
• Playable with any controller
• Added more help and game introduction information, including parade of characters
• Significant perf improvements
• Game pause state is more obvious now
• Several Game play tweaks
• earlier energy warning sound
• Improved scoring
• Asteroids are now easier to see on the scanner
• pulled back the camera
  

0.8.0.0

• Added contextual help
  
• Added shields
  
• Lots of Gameplay enhancements
  
• Lots of Game Tuning
  
• Improved the scanner and equipment displays
  
• Improved ship steering
  
• Cooler looking freighter
  
• Better warping functionality
  
• Fixed: X crashes the title screen
  
• Fixed: Sometimes the player loses all weapons
  

0.7.0.0

• Significant performance improvement. We are now getting 60 fps on onlder computers.
  
• Full screen mode
  
• New music
  
• Lots of gameplay tuning
  
• Better enemy logic
  
• Freighter distress signals
  
• Added additional keys a,s,w,d, RightSHift
  
• Several minor bug fixes, including a hang
  

0.6.0.0

• Added weapon powerups
• Bug fix: HUD has stuff hidden under the edges
• Other HUD Enhancements
• Asteroids on random axes now!
• Game play tuning
• Better pirate logic: Pirates can kill freighters now

0.5.1.0

• Improved steering
• Adjusted lighting
• Finally ironed out install issues
  

0.5.0.0

• Beefed up the levels with more pirates.
• Several minor game play improvements
• Moved to a web based install to address earlier install issues
  

0.4.0.1

• Fixed the "improperly formatted image" problem with the installer
  

0.4.0.0

• Better, more lethal pirate logic
• Changed the way energy orbs work
• Added new keyboard functionality and fixed the help screen
• Improved the stats display on the left
• Fuel needs to alert you when low
• Changed the pirate ship model
• Game play tuning
• Improved visual effects, including cool warp effect
  

0.3.0.0

• Bug fix: Some collisions hang the game
• Bug fix: Spin goes unresponsive when the cursor is off the window for about 10 seconds (research)
• Bug fix: No more invisible bullets
• Checks for newer version on the web, alert the user
• Various improvements to the graphics and sounds
• Game play tuning
• You can now PAUSE - 'p' key, game pad start key, lost focus, if the are no controllers
• Low Energy Alert

0.2.0.0 - Initial alpha release