Thanks for the feedback! We were short on time due to work and had to change our idea with about 4 hours to go in order to turn our project into an actual game people could have at least some fun with. There are a lot of polish ideas that we simply didn't have time to implement, some of what you and Mark Brown said and also some that we had planned.

The connection to the theme was different from most projects. Instead of restricting existing mechanics into "only one" being available to the player, our "only one" refers to the ship only having one function remaining (the shields). Compare this to a game like geometry wars where you can move and shoot, or FTL where you have multiple systems to take care of. This theme was a bit abstract and everyone has different perspectives on what it should mean, so we completely understand where you are coming from and agree.

Thanks! We definitely wish we could have implemented polish features that we had planned, but unfortunately we ran out of time.

Thank you so much for the review! In hindsight a score counter is certainly something we regret not prioritizing, we'll surely add that when we develop the game further.