So I read "test your quick reflexes and strategic thinking" and immediately thought that I would do very badly at this game. And I was right! I tried a couple of times on keyboard and I just couldn't push the right buttons fast enough, no matter how frantically I tried.
I'm guessing the easy way to "break" the game is push every button all the time which is what I did on a gamepad and managed to get a clean run. With the speed that the asteroids rain down, I don't think I could possibly win if that wasn't an option. But for someone better than me who wants a challenge, it would probably work to put some sort of global Energy/Power meter in. Every gun pulls from this single resource, so you can't have all of them active at the same time and firing too much too quickly (which is to say, shooting a gun that doesn't have a legitimate target) will leave the player with too little juice to stop an incoming threat in time.
Gameplay aside, the presentation is nice, I like the graphics and the sounds (even if the description page downplays the sound effects). The inclusion of a tutorial is nice, one thing about that is it would be nice to have a Continue/Next button so that the player isn't waiting for the next bit of text to appear once they're ready to progress and also doesn't miss any text when it disappears before they've finished reading it.
Also, great job including controls for keyboard and gamepad and allowing remapping. All very nice details that are difficult to fit into the confines of a game jam time limit.
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