Thank you :) It was great to see you back in the jam, too.

And thanks, I spent a LOT of time on the ship movement. I wished I'd got in something like your objectives radial - then I could have gone to town a bit on the level sizes, or at least made sure the player didn't get lost... Though my last level is probably pushing it a bit size-wise.

Oh damnit, sorry to hear that - I've just checked, and two of the six checkpoints in level 3 have a bad position offset. Nothing worse than something added to aid the player actually breaking their experience. My apologies.

I've fixed them and am currently building a new release which I'll upload shortly. Glad you enjoyed playing and hope you'll play again, though I know we're all short of review time!

Thank you for your kind words! I experimented with some ideas such as the rocks doing damage but it wasn't fun so I kept the gameplay as simple as possible.

Cheers, man! Thanks and was cool seeing you play on stream! Yeah, I felt guilty every time I reused an explosion or laser sound. I'd developed it mostly without sound and well, due to time constraints I ended up letting the music be the main audio theme.

I managed to throw in controller support in last year's submission so would probably be an easy lift and shift. Aiming the turret with a controller stick is definitely harder though (for my sausage fingers anyway)

Edit: you mentioned about the music being a bit loud - I added a slider for that in my latest bugfix.

Thanks Joe! And thank you for the suggestion - pretty much every space shooter I've made before has had a shield mechanic. Probably would have added a bit more nuance to blitzing past those pesky gun emplacements!

Will definitely add it to the ideas backlog as I intend to develop this further (I've been developing my GDTV 2021 submission over the last year though progress has been slow!)

Thanks CFHM! There are indeed more upgrades later :) the later levels introduce new enemies and by the end you're melting those little 'space bats' that harangue you at the start. Also this progression is where I paid lip service to implemented the theme.

As I feel the controls may be a game breaking issue for those that hate tank controls, I quickly threw together a more modern system (copy paste of the enemy follow logic). It can be toggled by pressing 'M' in game.

Thank you so much for the feedback and hope to keep in touch.

Thanks for the feedback! Perhaps I could tweak the thrust numbers a bit. It's a tricky balance of not letting the player outrun everything vs things being a bit slow. And I'm definitely a fan of running at 65mph like the 1993 Doomguy :)

Thank you! I didn't have much to show on the first weekend so I wasn't sure how this game would turn out.

But on the last three days let's just say I put in a lot of hours.

Thanks for the feedback, heckert! I did a quick run on Sunday poking at the walls and fixed a few examples but I knew there'd be some places an intrepid wallhacker could sneak through or get stuck. The ice balls behaved a bit weirdly where I'd got lazy and overlaid too many too close to each other.

Had half a mind to add an Easter egg section behind a gap but there wasn't time :)

Thanks! I added a mechanic where if you blind-fire into the distance then enemies will return fire. So there's a risk / reward on spraying and praying vs aiming. Was surprised quite how well it worked at punishing me for getting overexcited..!

Thank you so much! If you're using Unity, the effects are free ones from the Unity asset store (I listed them up top) - they add a lot of nice juice for not too much effort :)

Thanks Yang, means a lot!