It's funny... I found the rate of fire to be way too slow, the movement speed to be way too fast, and the collision on the pickups way too precise... but I overall was having a lot of fun! Maybe because of how those things all came together?

The pathfinding for the apples was really well done so they'd always bunch together coming from 90 degree angles. It made me feel like I could strategize and not just react and it led me to discovering the satisfying explosion from taking out several of them in one shot

One idea to consider might be giving different attack patterns to the different color apples rather than just speed. Like maybe green apples come at you from diagonals

I absolutely enjoyed my time with this one, but i could tell i wasnt playing as intended, i quickly noticed two bugs, one you move at double speed in diagonal directions, with your gun put away you move so fast the enemies dont really damage you, and if they do you can just run through them and get heals back. and two, when many apples stack on top of eachother, you can kill them all with one bullet. I spent my time with this game coalescing all the apples into one tile, and then shooting them all in one glorious red ringed explosion to level up many many times instantly. This game is a bit ugly, the controls are a bit weird, i wish there were more than one type of gun, but i played this one for more time and enjoyed myself the most out of all the other entries. nice work

It's a cool game. Well done! I found the rate of fire to be a little frustrating maybe semi-automatic would be better?