Not Exploding
This morning I started playing with the visuals, and got sucked into a vicious cycle of tweaking graphics, then playing the game to see them. After a couple of hours of this I realized I wasn’t getting anywhere and decided to move on to the sound. It looked like this- I liked it, but it was quite unplayable:

After working on more essential bits for a while , I returned and toned the effects down to this level:
The colors, they burn!!