Enjoyed the game and played until I defeated the invading ship!  Really liked how you gave the ship a circular path.  I wish the default firing rate was a bit higher! Overall great job.

Neat game, I liked the concept, and playing it was fun even if I controlled both ships, I'm going to have to revisit this one with a friend for the coop though. The pixel art was great, it ranged anywhere from SNES to DOS, especially that game over screen really felt like something I would play on a PC XT. Good job on the jam!

The music is fire, I liked the idea of playing together, and controlling two ships at once is mind-blowing :)

This looks really cool! Good controls, great intro, nice audio. And that Game Over screen was so disheartening!! Haha I loved it.

Fantastic retro game, great work

I enjoyed this one a lot quite a bit.

Very interesting retro art style. Alien mothership thing looks very cool, and powerups look very distinct. SFX are fine, and contrary to Nitro-Gen's review, I thought the music fit with and indeed added to the game.

The fact that the player orbits around the Enemy ship (as opposed to the Earth or just flying around) was a cool idea. Made for some interesting moments where I had to adjust my orbit and the direction I was moving to hit enemies.

I'd say you just about managed to include the theme with the ship getting bigger when you are hit, although it does feel tacked on.

For improvements, I'd say some more variety in powerups, such as changing the projectiles you shoot, would be welcome. I think I only found three powerup types in my playthroughs. 

The UI, while pretty, can be hard to read. Does it say what powerups I have anywhere?

It would be nice if I did not have to press [K] everytime to shoot, maybe let the player hold down [K] to fire when available (the infinite ammo powerup helped a lot, but still).

Finally, I notice that the name you give your Pilot is not saved between playthroughs. I did not realise this and ended up not having my highscore where I beat the game registered :(

With all that said, you've made a fun and original submission. Nice job!

Rating no. 1

The good stuff:
- You can't pickup powerups you already have, which is a nice attention to detail
- UI looks really good and creative but a bit confusing (where is my healthbar)
- The graphics are nice in general

The "ok" stuff:
- The sound effects are decent
- There are some cool animations

The stuff that needs improvement:
- The music does not fit at all but that's what usually happens if you use premade music from someone else. Some synthwave probably would have fit more for the space theme.
- I haven't managed to figure out the goal of the game. Is it to survive? Is it to beat the boss? Is it to get a highscore? It's never stated in the game so the player doesn't have a goal in mind which isn't that nice. I did manage to beat the game and get the top score on the leaderboard which is cool I guess.
- Don't use thin fonts because they can have holes in them sometimes. This happens in your pause menu and doesn't look great.
- The orange powerup thing that kills every enemy on screen explodes my ears. You could solve that by not putting the enemy dying SFX on the same function that handles enemy dying, and putting a different SFX for the orange powerup that only plays once.
- I didn't like the voice acting in the intro, but that's just my personal taste
- One last thing, I have no idea how this fits the theme. Having the theme appear in the story or setting only is not enough, it should appear somewhere in the gameplay. Here you could have added an ability that makes your hitbox bigger and slowed you down for more damage for example. It would still be kinda weak but at least it's something.

I gave an overall 3 to the game, has a lot to improve on.

Cute gameplay loop!

Love callbacks to classics, and this does that justice.

The circular movement around to defend can feel a little awkward to do, Maybe if the speed was higher it could be explored more, feels really hard to justify repositioning much, but theres a very real chance I'm just bad at the game haha.

Really clean sound design and art direction too, good work all around :D

Instructions show the  fire keys in the wrong order.

I like the base idea but I didn't really get how to win (or is it just highscore?). I mean it seemed like the main boss never lost any health even if I hit him a lot of times. I liked the theme music and the simple controls, for me the powerups could have more depth. Other than that good game for a jam!

i don't think i fully understood what was going on, but this was still fun to play and a neat concept! 

Nice job! Addictive, especially when you grab powerups :)