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Very reasonable points, thank you for your honest and soulcrushing feedback! Lmao just kidding but I do appreciate the criticism. Time was honestly our hardest constraint. We only spent a little over 4 days working on this and that was only for a few hours after our day job was over, but if given more time, I know we couldve crushed it. There were so many things we wanted to improve and throw in, which a lot of, you have mentioned. Totally agree that the enemies should have been color coded. Though compared to the things on my list of requirements, this was pretty low on the priority list. My other programmer couldnt participate on the last day so i had to continue working in all of the mechanics at the last minute and there ended up being way more than i thought needed to be done. There are actually 5 different enemy types which i unfortunately didnt have the time to balance. Lots of the behavior for these enemy types actually feel pretty cool, and in the editor, the player actually feels so much smoother. I had no idea how big of a dynamic change the player's movement would have until after the jam, because i didnt really get to test anything since i was busy throwing in a lot of last minute mechanics and features that were necessary for the theme of the jam. All this just to realize that i made a mistake in the code and in order to truly see the potential, you have to reach level 5, and of course, in this build you were not able to. On behalf of my artist, he spent a great deal of time working on the player model for the ship and at least 5 different variations so that the player would have a new ship each time you scrolled up to a new level. On top of texturing and all of that other artsy stuff he created the phenomenal intro screen that you saw in the main menu and probably worked harder than everyone on the team to make the model look good along with the main menu . Sadly because the model was so small in-game, you arent able to see the details of his hard work.  And yea, the powerups and all that stuff were super last minute so i couldnt give them the best visual let alone any visual at all. I was desperately trying to make the deadline. Check out the updated version which  i believe is way better. Could use more tweaks of course, but i think this is how the game should have at least been polished up to this degree. https://gamejolt.com/games/starfighter/581320