I love the look of it, though it's a bit weird that the player and cursor have separate light sources rather than a light shining from the player towards the cursor. Is it intentional that there's actually two light sources or is that just the limitations of the lighting right now?
i was considering that, and i still might try it out because it would probably look cool.
the lighting is only limited by my intelligence :P if i do too many calculations when i go thru all the pixels the game can lose a lot of frames very quickly. i dont think that should be a problem here, but we'll see.
update on the light thing: i did the 'check if pixel is between the scanner and the player and light it up if its close' thing and it looks...much worse than expected :P
what i had pictured in my head was basically a triangle facing the scanner with the tip centered on the player which would probably take a lot more time to figure out in my lighting system, so i think im done with this idea