Charlie's ideas

[charlie]

I'll post my simpler improvement ideas here.

The 'Challenge Unlocked' animation is a bit slow and bland.

1. Make the screenshot spin (quite quickly) as it comes out of the treasure chest and 'land' in the middle of the screen
2. Star particles (cartoon style) being shot off as it spins and as it hits the screen
3. A crisper star field in the background, or perhaps animated - something simple like different sized stars (not cartoon style) going upwards at different speeds. Or a skybox being rotated, that could work quite well. (e.g. this one, source, project)

[charlie]

These might be quite good for horizontal scrolling backgrounds:
http://opengameart.org/content/spacy-cl ... ackgrounds

[Auria]

agreed, this is definitely something that can be improved.