Oh I should also mention, I stayed up listening to your Einhander podcast episode a couple days ago ^_^;; You guys clearly know your stuff (my SHMUP experience is infinitely limited to stuff like Einhander, R-Type III & FINAL, Zero Wing, and Raptor CotS.... oh and NANOSTRAY. lol (probably a few others I can't think of)
SO - Seriously thank you for the feedback, means a lot knowing you've played a lot of different things and have an idea for what I should be aiming for.
Sorry for the delayed reply, but thank you so much for listening to the podcast! We have a Discord server now as well, so if you want more players to try your demo and give you feedback, I'd be happy to send you a link. We have a very good community, and a couple other devs that hang out in the server that would very likely swap ideas with you and provide feedback from their own development perspective as well.