I got this at GDC: "2-Bee Games" is hosting a game developers contest up to 4/15/09 for a one level demo of any genre of game, as long as the file size is 250mb or under. The grand prize is 10 grand plus "a publishing deal for your game to a major console." They pefer games be submitted in flash or XNA formats, but it sounded like they could be a bit flexable on that as long as you provide all the necessary package instillations for your game. Here's the main site:

http://www.2beegames.com/

Well, I sorta got what I had in mind to work...I also found a way to slow down the spiral...but I also wanted the sprite to expand as well as rotate, which is all that it does at the moment (if you slow it down you'll see what I mean)...do I need to rework the math to do that or add another expression before or further down the line?

Is it too late to ask about having the sprites spread to beyond the layout or animating the position of the entire pattern?

Looks like 2shared has dropped the file. do you think you could reupload it?