As long as you don't fight around earth it's perfectly good. if not you shoot up earth like there's no tomorrow

Fun space shooter game! The movement felt very fitting for a space operating in outer space and I had to be quite precise with when I hit the thrusters. It made it challenging but fun sort of like a Lunar Landing meets Vampire Survivors type mashup. Sound effects were satisfying, and music track was pleasant to have in the background while attempting to save Earth.

Great work!

Man, I had a really hard time with this game. I could only get one powerup in all the time I played. But t was good otherwise.

great job on the game! the movement felt so smooth. maybe i need to fuel myself with mountain dew too! congrats on the submission :- )

Hey there, nice game! Sorry people of Earth, I tried. I might suggest that you give the player an afterburner on Shift or else just boost rate of acceleration, something that lets them redirect more easily if they get knocked back or want to change direction because right now the bulk of the gameplay is just wrestling to redirect your ship. Set me up so I can mow down these evil extraterrestrials! Thanks for the game, I had fun.

A fun space shooter with simple, easy to pick up objectives. I actually really like that there's only one kind of gun and two powerups. I appreciate the (probably?) realistic physics of momentum/inertia in space, but it was a little frustrating that my thrusters seemed to struggle and take a long time to help me reverse direction of movement. Also that getting hit by an enemy added so much additional momentum. So yeah, biggest gripe is that I wish the controls were tighter. I also lost track of where I was in space in relation to Earth, so maybe a minimap or just an indicator to help point the direction back would be helpful. Finally, I wish the starfield in the background were a little more prominent. Granted I was playing on a crap monitor, but the stars were so dim that I didn't really get a sense of relative speed and couldn't tell how fast I was going in any direction. But I loved blasting those aliens, and the music and blaster sfx were good!

edit: like some other commenters, I thought it was cool you could accidentally damage earth yourself. That's a nice touch and additional degree of difficulty.

This is a lot of fun! I'm a big fan of games with floaty space movement like asteroids, lunar lander, etc., I think it works really well here and adds to the difficulty in a good way. I think the acceleration could be increased a bit, and the knockback decreased a bit but otherwise I really enjoyed it! I like the detail of being able to damage earth yourself though it felt a little unfair when enemy ships wound up ontop of the earth (though they thankfully don't seem to stay there too long which is nice).

Also love the simple design of your main menu conveying the controls, it makes it very easy to understand at a glance and jump right in!

Very FUN and UNIQUE idea on this game! AWESOME WORK!!! GREAT ART!!! NICE MECHANICS!!! This was a fun challenging game. Loved it.

I liked the detail that you can shoot the earth by accident. The booster feels slow and the controls feel difficult but perhaps it's intended? Overall I think you did a good job with the game.

Nice visuals.
Controls feel a little odd? Maybe you wanted them that way?
Also good music and SFX. Liked the fact that I can damage Earth hehe!

I'm amazed they let me graduate flight school T_T

Nice game, it looks great! I sucked at the controls but that's probably a skill issue lmao

Nice to see another defend the earth take! And a good one aswell. I got oushed away from earth by the invaders and got a littlebit lost, enhancing the background with stars/planets with a higher density closer to earth could be an indicator. Outside of that great work! 

Cool game that is very fun to play! I would like to see a boost button for the movement but overall great job!

I really like the idea and the concept, the ship just needs more thrust.  Especially with the massive knockback that the enemies have.  I have no idea where the earth is at this point because I was never going to get back to it.  If there wasn't the knockback I would have been fine with the low thrust but that took a lot of the fun out of the game for me.

Great game, I love it! I wish only if movement was a little eazier :)

Nice work, especially as a solo dev! I liked the mechanic of getting knocked away from the thing you were supposed to protect -- I felt like you didn't even need lives at that point: just have the aliens knock you away and then demolish the Earth. That said, I'm glad you didn't do that, because the knockback effect, coupled with the lower thrust on the player ship, made navigating back to Earth brutally hard. :P

A fun game that evokes arcade classics. Wish you had had more time as I think you are on to something fun!

I didn't undestand this game xD, I need destroy the earth? or waiting the enemies to spawn?

Oh I see, I just go to away from the earth

Great game idea. i had some problem to get my ship to fly where i wanted, but it's mostly my fault, i never play such games. i should do it more. Friendly Fire killed my earth.

the only option i really missed is to lower the volume or turn off music /sounds.

Great idea. Nice game atmosphere.