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Thanks so much! The soundtrack actually came first as a concept album & tribute to Einhander ^_^

The train issue is still annoying - the engine doesn't allow me to move the respawn point so.... trying to get the creator of the engine to make some updates that will allow it

Hi Kwipp! Thanks much for the feedback!

I've had issues with the train/re-spawn in the past so I'm exploring some additional methods I can try to solve that issue (The engine I'm using unfortunately doesn't have a way yet to account for spawning the player inside a collision box).

Easy Difficulty - CAN DO, I'll make sure this is included when the 1st Steam Demo goes live.  So happy you love the visuals and sound! <3

All good! I'd be happy to pop in and say hi if you wanted to send the link.  I''m slowly getting the 2nd stage of the game finished up with almost all of the feedback worked on so it's slowly plugging along.  I think once the 2nd stage is in a slightly more final state I'll drop an updated demo.

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.

Thanks for all the feedback! Seriously!
1. You aren't the first person to bring up hitboxes for the player (and a wonky hitbox for the boss laser) so this is something I've already started working on.  The hitbox itself in this demo is the size of the ships body which is my intention, but I'm already squeezing it inwards a bit to account for near-misses and the like.  That should hopefully help things feel a little better in that regard.

2. So what I'm aiming for with weapons (ultimately) is the colored items swap loadouts, and the upgrade pickup upgrades everything one at a time.  However - because the engine currently lacks the ability to define and track variables, It's not quite as intuitive and simple as I'd like it to be.  We were told the variables update would be early this year and that's not quite happened yet so... I'm designing for that eventuality which I'm hoping will make the process much easier to understand.  There's a good chance that will open up some easier options for me to visually display some differences on the ship so there's a better indication of what to expect from each weapon as well - but that's still a floating idea.  To your point tho, yes - the basic shot is intended to be "fine" but not ideal.  I may just need to reduce HP on a few other chonkier enemies.

3. The album sort of came first and it was very much composed as a tribute to Einhander, so this sliding into the territory of fan-game is extremely likely and - having come from the Sonic fangaming community years ago, I wouldn't be too upset by that.  In my head-cannon this feels like the same physical locations but, perhaps a different point in time. Dunno.  I think its drifting that way because of all the inspiration that went into the music the game is based on.
- I'll say this though, working on this is so much fun that when it's finished I'm definitely wanting to start a new project from scratch and do something that feels more original.

4. I think I've heard about this as well from some other SHMUP Creator devs, I need to poke and see if theres a solution or if we are just waiting for another update.

Thanks again! If you remember your highscore at the end I'd love to include it in the next build!