I never really liked the original Asteroids or games inspired by it, mostly due to the clunky controls, so it says something that I had fun. Adding mouse controls really made the movement experience smooth.
My "Ooooh" moment was realizing that each life could get me only 10000 points from shards and I needed 50000 points to win. 20000 points were missing?? That's where the genius of the blue squares come in. My first impression was that the whole shard gimmick was just to fulfill the theme topic but it's important when and where you die to maximize the post mortem points.
For some reason when I was close to 50k and died for the third time I got 3 new lives. Is that a bug or a feature I failed to notice? The graphics and sound effects are positively retro. I'll see to check out your other games at a later date. Thanks for the fun and all the best ^_^