Thanks,🙂

I'm glad the little workarounds I came up with seem to work well enough. The single bullet was just a way of saving space vs having another group of table entries to cycle through, and the 'homing attack waves' are just an increasing spawn probability with distance traveled, and an x position that changes by distance to the player's ship/96. 

I was originally stuck on the random generation because the background needed srand(), but that meant no random enemy spawning without creating a list of values to draw from at startup. I hit on using another srand() call with the distance traveled as the seed, which gives random spawns that are the same every session, and saved around 30 bytes. I'm thinking about doing a writeup for this and/or my 550-char Space Invaders, maybe some of the strategies I found will help somebody fit their regular-size games into Pico-8 better.

Thanks, I had to heavily exploit P8SCII to shave off every extra byte, and also hope the hacky parts didn't cause problems (like the fact you only have one bullet).😉

I've had some ideas for a more substantial shmup for a while, but I'm not a fan of super-difficult games and am more interested in the aesthetics and atmosphere, and haven't been sure if people would be interested in that. Guess I'll have to do some experiments.

Thanks. It's very simple, but I tried to add some polish and make it look as nice as I could. P8SCII codes are very useful, but they're very cryptic and fiddly.

use puny font (ctrl+p) and the paste it to pico8