I really enjoyed this. The game is quite simple but also innovative. The shooting being tied to movement was pretty cool. The game controls very well.
Other than the boss fight, I never really felt a need to move horizontally. Up until that point I only used the up arrow key. It would be cool if you could add elements which encourage the player to use the other directions (excluding the boss fight in which there was an incentive to move).
Overall, I thought it was great. Well done.
Thank you for playing. I'm really glad you enjoyed it.
Wow you didn't need to move horizontally? I thought that like to collect the power ups it was necessary to move horizontally...
In earlier versions before it was uploaded, the power ups would just move upward. It totally encouraged the player to move horizontally to collect the power up; but I figured it would be way too annoying so I made it fly to the left depending on its horizontal position when first spawned. Perhaps I should lessen the power up's initial horizontal velocity.
