0.9.22 will (probably?) come with a new weapon: Air mines.

Air mines can be pushed into the air in which they float freely. After a short activation time, an air mine will follow any hegehog unlucky enough to be too close to it. If the air mine collides with the hedgehog, it will burst in a small explosion (about 25-30 damage, not sure).

You can also use game scheme to scatter air mines through the landscape from the beginning, like regular (land) mines.

For some reason, the regular Shoppa sheme will have air mines in the landscape at the moment. I am not sure if this change is a good idea. I think a seperate scheme might be better.

What is currently missing and unfinished about air mines (in my opinion):

• Good images for the air mine (currently only placeholders, based on the Sudden Death flakes in Underwater theme)
• Better collision sound (now uses "denied" sound)
• An activation sound maybe (when the air mine is starting to following a hog)
• An in-game description (I suggested one here.)

My personal favourite idea for air mine images is to make something which looks like a regular mine (maybe different color, blue or whatever) and attach animated wings to it, so the air mine is "flapping around".

I think Hedgewars has gone too "technical" with the recent new weapons/utilities (freezer, portal gun, rubber slightly less so), so I would like to see more comic/humourous style again. (Nothing against rubber, freezer and portal gun, of course)

But I am a terrible artist, so I have just the idea but nothing to show, sorry.

Someone else suggested to make the air mine look more like a "manhack" (whatever that is), or a razorblade ball or something like that (not sure).

If you have a different suggestion for how the air mine should look, please post them!

If you have anything else to say, just say it! xD