This is so cool! Maybe add some rotation to the fighter as it banks left or right but otherwise it plays beautifully. Oh and can you map the pause and restart to the game pad please?
Thanks for the suggestions. The fighter now rotates as it banks right and left. And I just released another prototype with the Pause and Restart buttons mapped to the gamepad, so this latest build of River Raid has it now too. Use the Select button on your gamepad to pause and the Start button to restart the game. Future updates will have a setup screen to reassign keyboard and gamepad mappings :)