**CAUTION TECHNICAL CONTENT BELOW**
In flash, there are objects called movieClips, which in madness, contain the guns, objects, and pretty much everything you see on screen. These movieClips contain the graphics for most objects in-game, and also contain the coding for them. The original design uses empty movieClips (no graphics) to serve as points where shell casings come from, as well as to determine the flight path of bullets. Although they are empty, they still use up processor power, and with several characters/guns onscreen, there can easily be 100 of these points wasting memory and speed. To fix this issue, I added the code “_visible = false” to these points, making them invisible. Although they were already invisible, the processor no longer has to focus on drawing these invisible points on the screen, just the coordinates of the points, which is much less hardware intensive. This allowed about twice as much occurring onscreen before slow-downs began.

In short, although Madness Next-Gen v.3 will have much better audio and visuals than previous versions, as well as more content, it should run much faster!