Yeah I really wanted to get a parallax effect working but I didn't really like the way it looked when I tried it. I liked the idea of being able to go in any direction, and I didn't have the time to figure out how to repeat the background so you would never run out of space.
As for the crashing, that's really weird, you said you get to about 30 seconds, is this before/after the solar storm, is this on death?
Thank you for the review though.