Wow, this is a very cool project! Great use of AI - well done! I love the style, and pixel and retro sound effects and the characters and enemy ships. The game is fun and feels good to play, and I really love the arcade machine image for the page. It's awesome! Is there a way to slow down the emulation slightly? I bet that can be hard to tune. I was having a bit of trouble dodging the bullets on the 3rd boss, but I like the challenge - a great mixture of patience awareness and precision required, and I like that the weapons are very quick to upgrade, nice work! :)
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Thank you! I think Lava Tiger is simply not tuned (as well as how easy it is to get to him)
My attention and ability to focus on these projects is pretty fried between being alive in 2026 and "robot now builds whatever I ask for, and I know a lot of game ideas to ask for"
But I also really like this one, so hopefully I will get it to a better balance in the levels and the bosses. I've still never beaten Lava Tiger on NewGame+, so he is definitively *hard*. Perhaps I'll introduce a power-up that spawns if you can destroy the laser pads (right now they're pretty hard to kill also) and that power-up will slow down everything for a little bit. A time dilation power-up just for boss fights that drops from boss minions.
In the meantime, if you really want to beat the tiger, the .pce ROM is available and you can load it into an offline emulator with a slowdown feature! Thank you again for the kind words