Hello from tonight's stream!

This game was an absolute blast for the sort of challenge it created. I also loved the characters. For so few lines of dialogue, they have so much personality to them! I can't wait to play more of this!

There were three things I noticed while playing that I felt could see improvements. I'll order this from what I think is least important to most important.

1. When you finish a run, the screens where you put your points into gems and then add the gems to your total is rather long and cannot be skipped or sped up in any way. Since these screens are intended as an important part of the game, they're going to be seen a lot. Making it that hitting a button (likely space or enter, but not all) allows you to skip to the end total for each to speed this up.

2. At the start of the first wave on a new planet, the characters are kept stuck in their starting positions for several seconds. During that time, the wave begins and enemies are present on the screen almost immediately. The inability to move when enemies are present is disconcerting. This doesn't happen at the start of all other waves, though. Making it that the wave timers don't start until the player can move would fix this.

3. There are so many fun weapons in this game, and while you do get main and secondary weapons to give you more spots, the weapons system isn't set up to try and plan ahead a bit (assuming your luck holds). Allowing players some additional slots to hold one or two weapons cards in reserve (with the ability to upgrade and hold separately) that they can try to upgrade before switching it in to replace another weapon would solve this. This could also be done with upgrades, though I think it's not as big of a deal for upgrades since you get double the number of slots.

Playing this as a single-player was pretty hard! I got past the first boss, and died to the second. In the waves of the second stage, I was pretty much just trying to avoid getting hit by the bullets more than trying to kill anything.

I liked being able to upgrade the ships. I had some cards that could only go in my hand, but I had no idea what to do with them. They seemed pretty useful, like being able to heal my ships, but I didn't know how to use them :(

The font for the text was kind of hard to read, but the flavor text of the merchants was nice.

I only got till the second level, but its amazing.

- The mechanic is very unique and makes you keep changing focus between the two ships while sitll needing to constantly move, which makes the slow moving enemies sitll a big challenge to overcome.

- The first boss was really cool as an introduction to the concept and wasn't too hard nor too easy.

- Art and music were amazing, I really love the purple guy design and the shop seller, though the cat could see a little extra style and being a little less cute to feel more like a space pal and less of a mascot.

- The cards mechanic is good, but I would like if it didn't cover the whole screen when getting a new card.

Overall, really fun, I think you should change the page description a little cause it make the game soundtoo complex when in reality its some great arcadey fun.

I tried out your game today and honestly... I'm surprised this isn't getting more love and attention. I had a blast and thought this was very well done! Here's my feedback...

FEEDBACK:

1. I think you should REALLY push co-op/playing with a friend. I don't know if you intend for this to be co-op, but my friend was over, and I was like... I'll take WASD, and you take Arrow Keys. We had a LOT of fun playing this together! Fighting over cards, talking during combat... have you considered adding co-op? Online, couch, etc.

2. I know controller support is coming and the keyboard is great. However, the ability to proceed through chat with space bar or another button on keyboard would be nice. You use WASD and arrow keys to control your ships, so when dialogue pops up, it would be nice to just keep my hand on the keyboard. Not a huge deal, though.

3. I'm not a fan of how cards auto-pop on-screen mid-combat when you acquire them. It would be nice if we chose when this happens—end of level. I press a button. I know we assign the cards once we get them... but it really took away from combat during certain moments. Maybe newly acquired cards sit in a pool, and then I assign them at another point in time?

THE GOOD:

1. Great opening tutorial. Ability to skip for repeat players would be nice (not sure if you can).

2. Love the music. Very fitting for the game. Just the right energy and it doesn't get repetitive.

3. Combat is the best part. I love how we need to watch both sides of the screen, and controlling both ships made me think. It takes some getting used to, but it adds a nice challenge and level of difficulty. Really fun!

4. Love how you get to choose the next level after you beat one!

5. Playing with a friend, sharing the same keyboard, was a LOT of fun :-)

6. Obtaining cards and assigning them to your two ships adds some nice variety. Loved this.

Overall-loved this. Top marks! Keep up the great work!

A little hard to get the hang of managing two ships at once but really looks good and  plays smoothly.