There was some subtle problem with the index.html of Star Shooter Deluxe IV where Rosebud says the page is broken so i am submitting the 3rd one as my proximal game jam submission.
However
1) my submission is kind of really the entire series starting with Star Shooter Deluxe ("1") through IV.
The 4th one is beautiful. -Espeeccially the interactions between the high level enemies and their shooting bullet-hell in waves 16-19 before the final boss. Take special note of that, it really cooks in that section.
2) SSD 1 is remixed from two prior remixes in the line from someone's blank 2D playground template.
But! the up-thrust of the submission is me as an imbellisher anyway, if you look at their default Star Shooter game and then look at Star Shooter Deluxe 4 you will see it's different as night from day.
And each Roman numeral iteration in the series really is me smacking into Rosebud's limit at least once per separate itch page, and possibly twice, where i took it from Rosebud, to Grok 3 for a refactor for conciseness, and then back.
So it went through a brick wall about twelve times total. Where you had to patiently say "ok now Grok you stalled give it to me in three sections", or the equivalent on the Rosebud side. Go get a good night's sleep and come back, etc.
In terms of skill i grew up with the Atari 2600 BASIC cartridge, in 1979 so by rights I should have followed my college friend out of UW Seattle into coding right when I graduated in 1997, but i was in other types of engineering (ChE, Mechanical) and then didn't use the degree and wound up in regular office work. So what's happened every 5 years is like learning the 21-days teach yourself C SAMS book level every 5 years, then dropping it abortively.
Vibe coding allows me to participate by getting me over the decision paralysis barrier.
Much as for my music the fact the FA-08 had a sequencer built in -finally- allowed me to teach myself the rest of advanced piano by the bootstraps even though i only took one year of lessons in 1985-86.
So in both cases, enablement is occurring. For music that was the Rhombus album in January 2023 on Soundcloud.
the Analogous thing happening here with March of the 72 Demons, Frozen Tetris, and now Star Shooter Deluxe.
And that's the blow by blow.
Best regards,
--Douglas