Played your game tonight and enjoyed it!

MY ONLY COMPLAINT: Not a fan of how finding the base to upgrade is so challenging. Does it move around, as well? I tried killing enemies at the base and left a trail of coins... and when I followed them back... the base was gone. It would be nice if there was a small mini-map or even some sort of navigation that pointed you toward the base. Especially since you need to upgrade pretty quickly.

OVERALL FUN: It was a good time (with the exception of my complaint above), but I overall enjoyed it. The hoard does appear to expand quickly and get faster... so finding that base and upgrading seems important early on. Maybe it was just me, but I had a difficult time finding it to upgrade and keep up with the growing hoard. I may have been playing it wrong, too.

ART/GRAPHICS: Very well done here! Love the artwork of the ship, enemies and background images of space, plus the planets passing by, was all done nicely. Weapon fire and explosion animations looked great, as well.

CONTROLS/UI: The controls and movement, when I first read them, scared me. Some space/flying games with forward and reverse thrusters are challenging to control... but you pulled this off. They weren't challenging at all (which is good). Movement felt nice and fluid, and I love the reverse thrusters so I can still move and fire at the oncoming horde.

SOUND/MUSIC: Music was fitting and gave me that sense of dread. Kill this stuff quickly. Audio of the gun fire and explosions were nicely done, as well.

I liked playing this game! I appreciated that the controls were somewhat intuitive: the ship would fly forward/backward based on my mouse cursor, which is much easier to control than controlling left/right thrusters or something.

I didn't realize the going into the enemies would lower my hp until I died the first time. I suggest having some sort of visual or audio indicator would be good. I eventually realized I had a hp bar at the top right and it was decreasing, but by then it was too late for my first playthrough.

I played a second round and did better! I encountered and maybe killed the first boss. I feel like given enough rounds, I would get a better hang of the controls and play much better. I went to the upgrades screen and appreciated how many things there were to upgrade, even though I didn't get far enough to purchase any.

From the end screen, it appears that there are other weapons too, but I didn't experience them in my short playthroughs.. lots of content, which is great!

Another thing I really appreciated was the music after I died. The game itself was quiet which fit the space setting, and when I died, the ending theme was both celebratory and sad, if that makes sense.. and it fit it well!

Played this on stream and it was a good time! LOVE the music, and the atmosphere has a great setting! Would love to know more story and set-up with the main character specifically and his role up there in space-Also not being able to stop made it a little difficult to control with the thrusters-Really appreciated the scanner to help find items, but there were so many enemies around, it was hard to focus on anything but dodging. Overall a great start!

Great art and vibes and music. Everything is great except the controls. 

1) There is definitely something wrong with how the ship responds to the controller stick.

2) Switching between the mouse and controller isn't great. The game can't tell when I want to use the mouse on the menu. It lets you go back and forward in the game when you switch to the keyboard but couldn't find a way to steer.

3) Tiny step-by-step tutorial on the first game would be great. Like >this is your forward button >this is your fire etc. Because I thought the ship only goes backward for 5 mins. (And no one really checks out the controls page :D)

4) The ship starts to spiral out of control when you select the second steering option from settings.

Want to revisit this one when controls are reworked!

Excellent work, I really love the art style and how versatile the movement is and all the tricks you can do.

It's a little too easy to evade enemies, so I would suggest making them faster.

I also had a bug were text wouldn't appear for some reason? But how the game guides the player is so good that I didn't need to read anything. And the music got cut off.

10/10, amazingly well done

Hello from tonight's stream! I played this game for a while and I was very impressed by it. I like the constant momentum, the shifting field (I'm assuming the purple outer field marks an area where the base is in the middle), and the refusal to use invincibility frames. That said, I do think bosses should apply a knock back to prevent the player from dying fast. If you happen to mess up the controls (which I find happens a lot), you end up stuck on enemies for a moment. For bosses, this guarantees death. A knock back for bosses would the player to correct their mistake faster without being as punishing.

Also, it was the general opinion of the stream that the music could use an update. We assumed it was stock audio.

Graphics and sound are very solid. The one thing I really don't like are the controls however, having to manage drifting everywhere combined the up and down being dependent on the rotation of the ship is rough. Maybe it is accurate to the physics of space but to me it feels awful, maybe I just have to get used to it tho not sure. Also, one minor thing, there needs to be more indication when the player takes damage. It is currently hard to tell.