NeoHomeBrew, You have made a great improovement here and I am glad my suggestion has helped you. I really hope everyone else can also see how different this change has made hypernoid look. the game looks graphically 10x better to me from such a small detail change.

I see you have also altered the inner shadow of the play area making the left side and top shodow more pronounced. I feel this part you might have over done a little. You could try to make the left border and top border shadow to how the right side shadow looks now and remove the right shadow totally (or just remove the right shadow). That would be more in line with the mock up picture I did on the previous page.

Your going to want to look at the small black shadows around the popup information windows that appear when you complete the level also but I guess you have this on your todo list already.

But man, what an improovement so far! The bat / guard shadow is especially impressive now.

[edit] Just spotted the block message