That was fun! I especially like the movement and the crashing mechanic. The lock-on feature is a superb decision!

There could be a HUD element to signify the cooldown between shots, since it's based on shot frequency.

The audio is a little imbalanced. The shooting sound is a bit faint. The music overpowers the mix a little. The "level clear" sound is a lot louder than everything else. The audio is also a tiny bit loud. Not by much, but the music + thrust + enemy hit sounds threatened to peak above 0.0 dB consistently. When combined with the "level clear" sound, it peaked above 0.0 dB.

All-in-all, great work!

This was a great game. I wish I could have used wasd, but that's probably a personal gripe. I think that using "Up" or forward for the thruster would have made more sense, and put the button as the bullet. I found myself wasting bullets on accident because I was trying to thrust real quick haha. After 8 levels I got used to it, but I think making it more intuitive would lessen the time it takes to get to the real fun, your cool game! :D

edit: radar and lock on are freaking amazing. Great job with those features, nailed em :)

Very fun race-and-shoot gameplay! The motion of the ship feels very fluid, and shooting/ramming enemies is satisfying. The recoil from shooting the gun is a nice touch. The addition of a brief tutorial screen is greatly appreciated, as knowing the keybinds helped me jump into the action quickly. The music is great as well!

I did notice that I was sometimes unable to shoot. Is this tied to the energy bar at the bottom left? My apologies if I missed something, but I'm not really sure what the energy bar does (other than that it seemed to go up as you fly faster) and don't think there was any mention of it in the controls screen.

Really like the feel of this game, it's fun!

Fun space shooter concept. I really appreciate the multi-faceted ways of tackling enemies. Zooming around is pretty fun and chaotic.

I may have run into a bug with clearing the enemies but not progressing a couple times. Or I was really bad at finding the enemies (they weren't on the radar).

I can feel the speed of this game :D

I really love the music and game feel :). You can really feel the speed while playing.

I wish the UI was not shaking tho!

Congrats!

Cool little shmup. Great presentation all around with the graphics and sounds

The sense of speed you get when moving fast feels really juicy, so much so that I mostly just kept running through them instead of shooting

That said, I think my major gripe about the game is that I have no clue how health actually works, or what actually causes damage to the ship. Also I feel like the shooting enemies could have been introduced a little earlier tbh

Either way, really cool entry

Pretty fun and not too challenging, got to level 9 before I stopped.

One thing I really disliked is how the UI zoomed in when you speed up. That kind of made it hard to keep track of the enemies on the radar.

Also, on my first go I flew around a bit, couldn't find an enemy, crashed into one by accident, then moved to level 2, flew around some more and couldn't find any enemies at all. Perhaps the playable area should've been restricted/wrap around the map. You could also add arrows on the edges of the screen pointing at enemies. Either of those things would've made it easier to find the enemies if you move away from your starting location :)

Pretty cool idea, I enjoyed it :)

very nice project ! i really like the feeling of driving and speed.

the enemies end up piling up a bit, but the concept works and the music is great !

Amazing project! I'm in love with that movement mechanic. I drifted away from all the enemies a couple of times just because how fun it is to gain velocity. Visuals are great, music too. I couldn't get used to controls (up arrow to shoot) for some reason but it's just a minor thing. Great job overall!

Excellent game, soundtrack left me immersive

Great Game! The game has great presentation. One gripe is if you fly off too far you can lose the enemies for good. Maybe add an indicator on the edge of the Radar pointing toward where the enemies are located.

I love the music! its awesome!

controls feel good and the game has nice feedbacks and cool particles!

just the sprites could've been drawn nicer.

and when i hold both botton it would automatically clear some levels with no effort. but when i didn't cheat like that it was fun to play! :D

Overall i like it! Good job!

Fun, even if the controls took me a sec to process. I think you might have gone over the 4 color limit due to anti-aliasing. Cool entry though!

THAT ACCELLERATION! :O I CAN FEEL IT IN MY BONES!

Love the particle-effects. In general controlling the ship feels really good.

I don't even wanna shoot the aliens, just gonna ram them!

Woah the effects in this game are really impressive! I absolutely love the transition between levels and the marks that appear when you speed up on the screen. The blasts and the rocket fuel also look nice! I will say it was a bit difficult to control at first but that makes sense I suppose since it is space after all! The music and art meshed together very well and it is a fun game! :D